The UK government pulls back from new encryption rules in the Online Safety Bill, averting a clash with Big Tech, as the bill enters its final stages
Ministers will not immediately enforce online safety bill powers to scan apps after WhatsApp threatened shutdown
A look at potential issues in the UK's plans to revise its Investigatory Powers Act, including blocking end-to-end encryption and slowing down security updates
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Apple says the UK should amend its Online Safety Bill, which would mandate scanning messages for CSAM, to protect encryption, joining WhatsApp and Signal
Apple has criticised powers in the Online Safety Bill that could be used to force encrypted messaging tools like iMessage …
Apple says the UK's Online Safety Bill, which would mandate scanning messages for CSAM, should be amended to protect encryption, joining WhatsApp and Signal
Apple has criticised powers in the Online Safety Bill that could be used to force encrypted messaging tools like iMessage …
WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging apps sign a letter urging the UK government to rethink the Online Safety Bill, which would weaken privacy on the internet
Encrypted messaging services have jointly called for changes to parts of the UK Online Safety Bill (OSB).
Meta's Head of WhatsApp Will Cathcart says the service will not comply with UK requirements to remove end-to-end encryption set out in the Online Safety Bill
Meta's head of chat app says it would not comply with the requirements set out in online safety bill
The UK plans to criminalize self-harm content in the updated Online Safety Bill, in line with suicide content, after the death of teenager Molly Russell in 2017
The encouragement of self-harm will be criminalised in an update to the Online Safety Bill, the government has said.
WhatsApp head Will Cathcart warns UK ministers against undermining encryption in the Online Safety Bill, arguing the move would embolden authoritarian regimes
Moves to undermine messaging encryption could embolden hostile nation states, Will Cathcart says Tweets: @webdevlaw , @mattnavarra , @webdevlaw , @webdevlaw , and @pt Tweets: Heather Burns / @webdevla...
The UK's ICO plans to ensure porn websites and adult-only services are verifying users' ages, expanding on its Age Appropriate Design Code and Children's Code
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has pledged to crack down on porn sites and other adult-only services to ensure they are taking steps … Tweets: @oliviasolon , @oliviasolon , @livingstone_s ...
A profile of Nadine Dorries, who in her first six months as the UK's DCMS Secretary resurrected long-stalled tech legislation such as the Online Safety Bill
LONDON — Britain's digital minister has Big Tech in her sights — but critics worry she's not sufficiently across the details for her reforms to stick.