The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force...
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.
Or ship specific versions of their software for the UK, as it is done with other software in other countries with restrictions.
A lot of them have already said they’d withdraw (facetime, iMessage, signal, WhatsApp included).