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Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog (www.techradar.com)
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Developers of apps that use end-to-end encryption to protect private communications could be considered hostile actors in the UK.

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[โ€“] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You are exactly where the US was thirty or so years ago. Get ready for the hard push right to try to "attract the moderate Tories".

[โ€“] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

Get ready for something they were doing 20 years ago?