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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)

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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 backdoors into messaging services, which will destroy end-to-end encryption. No

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[-] Doherz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Honestly I hope WhatsApp (yeah I know Meta are date harvester extraordinares) pull out the second this passes.

WhatsApp is by far the largest messaging service used in the UK. Every company I've worked for in the last five years makes extensive use of group WhatsApps. Same with all my friends and family too.

The public outcry at that loss would potentially be enough to sway politicians away from such BS. Anything short of WhatsApp going and the British public won't be technologically literate enough to give a fuck.

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