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[News, Call for Action] The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Raisin8659@monyet.cc to c/technology@beehaw.org
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The U.K. Parliament is close to passing the Online Safety Bill, which threatens global privacy by allowing backdoors into messaging services, compromising end-to-end encryption. Despite objections, no amendments were accepted. The bill also includes content filtering and surveillance measures. There's still a chance for lawmakers to protect privacy with an amendment preserving encryption. A recent survey shows the majority of U.K. citizens want strong privacy on messaging apps.

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[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You'd need Microsoft/Apple/Google to agree to this to get these client side message scrapers on devices.

You'd need commercial/closed source e2e messaging services to agree to add a backdoor.

Why would they? Not that they care about end users, but corporate interests will take issue with it too. And it's a bad look. UK is just one market for these global companies. I'm not an expert in such things so I'm basically talking out of my ass, but I think it makes sense.

But even if they somehow manage it, people will learn how to circumvent it. And then there's open source operating systems and e2e messaging which are immune to this.

Edit: grammar.

[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheYang@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Several players have said they’ll exit the UK rather than exit encryption.

rightly so.

I'd assume any worldwide player couldn't be caught in compliance with this, as long as alternatives exist that don't.
This might have been enough to push EU people away from WhatsApp for example.