• QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This has nothing to do with RCS from what I read on the article. It looks like the UK wants to be able to tell companies to disable security features such as End to End Encryption so that they can view the messages.

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      1 year ago

      Isn’t WhatsApp super popular in the EU as a whole? Like to the point where EVERYONE uses it? What does the UK have to say about that? It’s apparently E2EE, right?

      Curious why WhatsApp isn’t in trouble.

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        1 year ago

        The UK has a lot to say about that. Brexit, is still a thing. Because it is super popular in the EU & protects citizens is precisely why it is being implemented in the UK - divergence from EU law is said by some to be a ‘Brexit benefit’. We’re biting our nose, despite it resulting in the loss of FaceTime :) On the flipside, anyone remember Boris, the Brexit guy? The oh-so-predictable excuse for not handing over his Whatsapp chats to authorities over questionable Covid PPE contracts - is that he forgot the passcode; so there is that. Overall, strong E2E encryption makes collective sense, even if it also protects questionable incidents - which more often than not, are a failure of non-technical checks & balances, which have nothing to do with encryption.

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        1 year ago

        Whatsapp is under the same rules and has said they’d leave too… https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/08/whatsapp-could-disappear-uk-over-privacy-concerns-ministers-told

        But although it’s popular it’s nowhere near everyone using it… I have about 2 whatsapp contacts and one of those is a mailing list. Most people I know use FB messenger. A few signal… It really depends on who your friend groups are…