The Online Safety Bill aims to regulate internet content, and includes proposals that would give media regulator Ofcom the power to demand platforms identify and remove child abuse content.
What is in the online safety bill?has never ordered Meta to provide authorities with ways to access encrypted WhatsApp messages, despite having the legal power to do so in secret.
Mr Wilton said the Online Safety Bill could instead require platforms to effectively"check" the messages before they become encrypted - like looking over your shoulder to read your letters rather than open them in the post. This could be done by scanning for illegal material preemptively on a device itself, before a message is sent.Big Brother Watch, a privacy group, warned the move would see the UK become a"communications black hole".Conservative MP David Davis has proposed an amendment to the bill to remove powers to monitor people's private encrypted messages.
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