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Why WhatsApp could quit the UK over the Online Safety Bill

19 April 2023

9:25 PM

19 April 2023

9:25 PM

WhatsApp, Signal and five other messaging services have joined forces to attack the government’s Online Safety Bill. They fear the bill will kill end-to-end encryption and say, in an open letter, that this could open the door to ‘routine, general and indiscriminate surveillance of personal messages’. The stakes are high: WhatsApp and Signal are threatening to leave the UK market if encryption is undermined.

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