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...
  • algorithmae@lemmy.one
    37·
    11 months ago

    Guess the UK better get used to seeing “We’re sorry, [AppName] is no longer available on your country.”

    • orsetto@beehaw.org
      10·
      11 months ago

      I don’t know if meta or telegram cares enough about encryption to lose UK market

      • dan@upvote.au
        5·
        11 months ago

        Neither Telegram nor Facebook Messenger is E2E encrypted by default. Maybe they’d just disable the option for E2E encryption for both senders and recipients in the UK.

      • sarchar@programming.dev
        3·
        11 months ago

        It’s going to be terribly difficult to run two different apps on mobile app stores. If Telegram gives access to the UK government to backdoor eavesdrop then that essentially means its available in the entire app. Any app that does this means I’m not using it.

    • MJBrune@beehaw.org
      3·
      11 months ago

      This is the far more likely outcome. Or at least the app backend will be secure encryption and customer-to-customer chat and data will be backdoor-ed encryption.