People in the UK may be left in the wilderness without secure messaging services, if the #OnlineSafetyBill retains its encryption busting clause.
Forcing platforms to comply with client-side scanning is state-mandated private surveillance of the kind that we see in authoritarian regimes. Platforms will leave rather than compromise #security and #privacy.
It'll particularly harm journalists, campaigners and activists who rely on #e2ee to communicate safely. #ukpolitics
https://techmonitor.ai/policy/privacy-and-data-protection/what-if-whatsapp-really-does-leave-the-uk
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