WhatsApp has said it will not comply with standards set out in a draft UK Online Safety Act.
The app has positioned itself through its CEO, Will Cathcart, who told the BBC that the company owned by Goal it would not lessen its security after the order of some government.
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“If we had to lower security for the world, to accommodate the requirement in one country, that… would be too silly for us to accept, making our product less desirable to 98% of our users because of the 2% requirements. “, Cathcart told the English network. For him, the bill proposes platforms to read users’ messages directly or indirectly.
The Online Safety Act is intended to detect legal activity such as abuse and harassment. However, due to the uncertain political situation in the UK, the passage of the legislation was delayed.
The bill would also allow the government to detect photos that depict child sexual abuse by scanning private messages, which violates the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) policy of many social platforms, including WhatsApp.
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