Signal's Meredith Whittaker said the encrypted messaging app would shut down in the UK if it was forced to scan people's messages Photo: Horacio Villalobos/Getty Images Europe
A government spokesman said the ministers had not changed their position. “Our position on this issue has not changed, and it is wrong to say otherwise. Our stance against online child sexual abuse remains strong and it has always been clear to us that the bill takes a balanced, evidence-based approach,” the spokesperson said.
case, on a case-by-case basis, and only subject to strict safeguards of confidentiality, this would allow Ofcom to instruct companies to either use or make every effort to develop or seek technology to detect and remove illegitimate children. sexually violent content that we know can be promoted.»
Will Cathcart, head of WhatsApp, said he was still worried about the powers.
He said: «The fact remains a fact.» that scanning every person's messages will destroy privacy as we know it. That was just as true last year as it is today.”
WhatsApp said it would stop implementing technology that scans messages before they leave people's phones.
G Mr. Cathcart stated earlier this year: “98% of our users are from outside the UK. They don't want us to lower the security of the product, and to put it simply, it would be a strange decision for us to lower the security of the product in such a way that it affects 98% of the users.»< /p>
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