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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (11 children)

How is a country going to end encryption worldwide? The West okay, bu what jurisdiction do they have over me?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

That's what I also fail to grasp.

If things get serious and for example the WhatsApp, Telegram and Signals of the world have to disable e2ee to keep operating in the UK, I guess they could just leave that market before compromising data privacy of their users worldwide.

I don't see this "ending encryption worldwide" thingy happening, at all.

But they could dig themselves a deeper hole after Brexit, that's definitely possible and wouldn't surprise me a bit.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or ship specific versions of their software for the UK, as it is done with other software in other countries with restrictions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

A lot of them have already said they'd withdraw (facetime, iMessage, signal, WhatsApp included).

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