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https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137/stages/17765
UK wants a backdoor into encrypted messages, data…
..Despite claims it seeks to protect users online, the recent draft of the Bill threatens to drive strong encryption from the market and place UK Internet users at greater risk than ever before.
The draft Online Safety Bill will force service providers to weaken or remove encryption to meet new content identification and removal requirements…
The government is seeking to update the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016.
It wants messaging services to clear security features with the Home Office before releasing them to customers.
The act lets the Home Office demand security features are disabled, without telling the public. Under the update, this would have to be immediate…
The government is seeking to update the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016.
It wants messaging services to clear security features with the Home Office before releasing them to customers.
The act lets the Home Office demand security features are disabled, without telling the public. Under the update, this would have to be immediate.
Apple says:
It would not make changes to security features specifically for one country that would weaken a product for all users.
Some changes would require issuing a software update so could not be made secretly
The proposals “constitute a serious and direct threat to data security and information privacy” that would affect people outside the UK.
Apple together with Signal and Whatsapp are 100% right IMO
They should all hit the UK Govt with an ‘App fee’ to undo their security features, should this IPA 2016 ammendment be approved and introduced.
The potential new MITM is the UK Home Office, I’m safe in the knowledge that their security is better than apple’s /s
..Despite claims it seeks to protect users online, the recent draft of the Bill threatens to drive strong encryption from the market and place UK Internet users at greater risk than ever before. The draft Online Safety Bill will force service providers to weaken or remove encryption to meet new content identification and removal requirements…
Mind you, the wish to weaken encryption is not only in England, but in other countries as well. The data bunkers in Utah are not there to store groceries. In the EU there are, as always, best-knowing-politicians who think they can stop the crooks with this weakening of the basics of the internet.
I remember the days when Microsoft denied usage of IE, outside US, due to 128bit encryption.
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