Re: The encryption horse is free
To be very fair - the goal isn't to ban encryption. It is to ban end to end encryption between users. Which is fairly new actually. It would require new privacy policies and the removal of advanced features for UK customers (the secret chat modes), but it wouldn't be the technical disaster we would like to think for users. Of mainstream apps, only WhatsApp would be completely banned (instead of just having secret chats disabled).
It would be a disaster for British companies. We are already seen as being too close to the Americans. Like people are starting to avoid American tech in privacy-conscious applications, they'd do the same for British tech. Brexit alone may inspire this.
I don't support an end to end encryption ban. But let's be clear it isn't a ban on things like online banking.
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