Online Safety Bill Concerns
Oh this is going to be a nasty car crash.
“God, I wish we had been a lot more vociferous. The legislation sounded so outlandish that I thought surely someone else would step up and shoot it down. We clearly should have been in the room but there was no-one in the UK tech industry represented on the security side.” (Matthew Hodgson, CEO Element)
A little knowledge is indeed a dangerous thing, especially when writing legislation. WhatsApp, Signal and Element are now being vocal about it. But iOS messaging is E2E as well. I’d hope sense would win out, but it feels like the last days of Rome in Government right now.
Online Safety Bill: WhatsApp, Signal issue stark final warning on message snooping
The UK Government will spy on everything we send or say if the current version of the Online Safety Bill passes into law
Mary-Ann Russon