The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide
The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force...
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I'm thinking the relevant service providers are going back out of the UK rather than put in a backdoor for them.
This is what Apple has already threatened to do. They’ve said that if they’re going to be forced to introduce backdoors into iMessage for the UK, they’ll simply stop offering iMessage in the UK altogether. I’d imagine that other providers like Signal will do the same.
Companies from UK can't back out. They will have to follow these regulations. Then some more will follow to keep competing
Apple, SIgnal, Session, WhatsApp and a few others have already said they'll simply withdraw from the UK market if this bill goes through.
Lets hope it gets struck down in the Lords like the similarly descructive REUL bill
How many major and ubiquitous communication companies are HQ'd in the UK?