Privacy concerns raised as UK government advances Online Safety Bill
The U.K. Parliament is currently reviewing the Online Safety Bill (OSB) as a means of internet regulation. If approved, the government would be authorized to mandate messaging companies to create backdoors and require detailed reports of users’ online activity. As the bill approaches approval in UK’s highest chamber, the House of Lords, there are concerns about its potential consequences for global privacy and encryption standards. The bill’s critics argue that this approach may have implications for private conversations and could raise concerns about surveillance vulnerabilities. You might also like: House of Lords conducts final review of financial services bill before returning to House of Commons Stakeholders like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have expressed reservations about the OSB, raising potential challenges to online privacy and security. The EFF has emphasized the difficulty of maintaining end-to-end encryption while implementing...