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WhatsApp would not remove end-to-end encryption for UK law, says chief
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Re: WhatsApp would not remove end-to-end encryption for UK law, says chief
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
Signal said they may have to pull out of the UK if the bill is enacted as well. This would be a major setback for communications here. We'd basically have to go back to SMS/MMS and email as far as I can tell. I don't know this is a fight the UK government can win. Does anyone else remember that the American government tried to ban encryption (back in the 90's I think it was)? They eventually had to give up because pe…
Why do countries want to ban E2E anyways? To spy on their citizens?
The excuse being used here is the prevention of child pornography. The bill being proposed puts the onus on tech companies to scan all messages going through their systems for evidence of child pornography. Obviously, E2E messages cannot be scanned so would be in breach of the law.
Re: WhatsApp would not remove end-to-end encryption for UK law, says chief
#173“If the company refused to do, it could face fines of up to 4% of its parent company Meta’s annual turnover – unless it pulled out of the UK market entirely.” Wow. I wonder if it got to that point if Meta would change course and disable end to end encryption for UK users and people messaging UK users, if that would be sufficient to comply. If this lobbying causes the UK to change course, I wonder what impact that wou…
The risk of US retaliation is too high.
The US routinely use similar bully techniques against their partners (in Iran for instance, pour EU comptines asked the EU commission for help but ultimately we retracted from Iran as asked by the US). They are powerful enough to do that, we (countries in the EU) are not.