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Meta-owned WhatsApp, Signal and five other apps signed an open letter saying the law could give an \"unelected official the power to weaken the privacy<\/a> of billions of people around the world\".
Britain's Online Safety Bill was originally designed to create one of the toughest regimes for regulating platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>.
The proposals were watered down in November, when a requirement to stop \"legal but harmful content\" was removed to protect free speech, and instead the focus was put on illegal content, particularly related to child safety.
The British government said the bill in \"no way represented a ban on end-to-end encryption, nor would it require services to weaken encryption\".
But it wants regulator Ofcom to be able to make platforms use accredited technology, or try to develop new technology, to identify child sexual abuse content.
The letter signatories said this was incompatible with end-to-end encryption, which enables a message to be read only by the sender and recipient.
\"The bill provides no explicit protection for encryption, and if implemented as written, could empower<\/a> Ofcom to try to force the proactive scanning of private messages on end-to-end encrypted communication services - nullifying the purpose of end-to-end encryption as a result and compromising the privacy of all user,\" they said.
The bill poses an \"unprecedented threat to the privacy, safety and security of every UK citizen and the people with whom they communicate around the world, while emboldening hostile governments who may seek to draft copy-cat laws\", they said.
A British government spokesperson said: \"We support strong encryption, 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.\"
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WhatsApp和其他反对英国继续加密消息传递应用程序
英国的网络安全法案最初旨在创建一个调控最严厉的制度平台,如Facebook、Instagram, TikTok和YouTube。
Meta-owned WhatsApp,信号和五个其他应用程序签署公开信说法律能给一个“非民选官员的权力削弱隐私世界各地的数以十亿计的人们”。
英国的网络安全法案最初旨在创建一个调控最严厉的制度平台,如Facebook、Instagram,TikTok和YouTube。
11月的建议被淡化,当需要停止“合法但有害内容”被保护言论自由,而重点是非法内容,特别是有关儿童安全。
英国政府说,这项法案“不代表禁止端到端加密,也不会要求服务削弱加密”。
但它希望监管机构Ofcom能够利用平台认证技术,或试图开发新技术,确定儿童性虐待的内容。
这封信签署国说这是不兼容的端到端加密,使消息发送者和接受者只读的。
“法案没有提供明确的加密保护,如果作为写实现,授权Ofcom试图迫使私人信息的主动扫描的端到端加密通信服务——放弃的目的端到端加密结果和影响所有用户的隐私,”他们说。
该法案提出了一个“前所未有的威胁到隐私,安全的每一个英国公民和世界各地的人们与他们交流,同时加深敌对的政府可能会寻求山寨法律草案”,他们说。
英国政府一位发言人表示:“我们支持强加密,但这不能以公共安全的代价。
“科技公司有义务确保他们不致盲和执法前所未有的儿童性虐待的平台。”
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