The bill wants to scan the apps for child pornography.
"We support strong encryption," a government official said, "but this cannot come at the cost of public safety.
"Tech companies have a moral duty to ensure they are not blinding themselves and law enforcement to the unprecedented levels of child sexual abuse on their platforms. "The Online Safety Bill in no way represents a ban on end-to-end encryption, nor will it require services to weaken encryption."However this did not soothe the platforms who released an open letter on Tuesday stating that "weakening encryption, undermining privacy and introducing the mass surveillance of people's private communications is not the way forward.
It also tackled the UK government’s assertion that technological ways can be found to scan messages without undermining the privacy of users by stating that "the truth is that this is not possible."Oxen Privacy Tech Foundation and Session director Alex LintonViber chief executive Ofir EyalHodgson went so far as to call the bill a "spectacular violation of privacy... equivalent to putting a CCTV camera in everyone's bedroom.
The platforms do have some government support. Liberal Democrat digital-economy spokesman Lord Clement-Jones"We need to know the government's intentions on this,” he added. The politician is proposing an amendment to the bill that would ensure users’ privacy is not violated although at the time it remains unclear how that can be executed.
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