Head of messaging service WhatsApp, Will Cathcart, has traveled to the UK to try to oppose a government bill that could target online privacy.
The bill has endured even in the extreme mess that has become British politics in recent years and attempts to encompass several methods of stopping harmful content on social media. You also want to hold big tech companies accountable for the content of their sites.
Where Cathcart’s concerns come into play is when the bill requires companies to use “reliable technology” to identify child pornography content posted publicly and privately on their platforms. Cathcart claims that this technology simply does not exist, which means the only way to comply with the law would be to break the end-to-end encryption.
This would lead some companies to walk rather than break their encryption, which would jeopardize the privacy of their users.
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