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    1 year ago

    How is a country going to end encryption worldwide? The West okay, bu what jurisdiction do they have over me?

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      1 year ago

      That’s what I also fail to grasp.

      If things get serious and for example the WhatsApp, Telegram and Signals of the world have to disable e2ee to keep operating in the UK, I guess they could just leave that market before compromising data privacy of their users worldwide.

      I don’t see this “ending encryption worldwide” thingy happening, at all.

      But they could dig themselves a deeper hole after Brexit, that’s definitely possible and wouldn’t surprise me a bit.

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        1 year ago

        Or ship specific versions of their software for the UK, as it is done with other software in other countries with restrictions.

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          A lot of them have already said they’d withdraw (facetime, iMessage, signal, WhatsApp included).

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      1 year ago

      Just make a list how many companies tech companies operate from west. All those companies have to follow the law of the homeland.

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        Sure, but most of those companies didn’t even care much about privacy any way. How would this affect Matrix for example?

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          Apple have already said they will shut down iMessage support in the UK if the bill passes.

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          this cryptographer working thing which will affect quantum computing, blockchain and integration of data. I don’t know much about Matrix so I can’t comment on that.

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          What I meant is, I literally don’t know where you live, so I don’t know why it doesn’t impact you “outside the west”