WhatsApp head Will Cathcart warns UK ministers against undermining encryption in the Online Safety Bill, arguing the move would embolden authoritarian regimes
Moves to undermine messaging encryption could embolden hostile nation states, Will Cathcart says Tweets: @webdevlaw , @mattnavarra , @webdevlaw , @webdevlaw , and @pt Tweets: Heather Burns / @webdevlaw : (Though they do occasionally say the quiet parts out loud.) https://twitter.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : UK online safety bill threatens security, WhatsApp chief warns “We're in an era...where cyber attacks are going way up. The idea that now is a moment to weaken security, I just think it's very, very wrong” - @wcathcart, Head of WhatsApp https://www.ft.com/... Heather Burns / @webdevlaw : What this vg article doesn't convey is how genuinely unhinged UK gov is in its obsession with e2e encryption & specifically WhatsApp, its view of e2e as a tool of Zuck and Clegg, and how the whole concept of e2e itself is fair game in the goal of “getting” that one company, 1/2 https://twitter.com/... Heather Burns / @webdevlaw : as you'll recall here from one of our still-unanswered questions about a rather colourful Tory plan to use the Online Safety Bill to retroactively criminalise the use of e2e for any reason, including health & financial security, in order to “get” FB & WA. https://webdevlaw.uk/... Parker / @pt : I sometimes half-jokingly suggest tech companies should geo-block Europe for bad privacy laws, but there are certain things it's probably worth really doing this for, like Europe's bad anti-privacy laws. https://twitter.com/...