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The EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agenda (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

To answer seriously: unfortunately, the UK is one step ahead with the Online Safety Act. They've already given Ofcom the power to enforce client-side scanning. Ofcom themselves are deciding whether they want to use this power yet and this should happen sometime next year.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I wonder how in the world Ofcom could enforce that?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think (and hope!) it would likely only get applied to the biggest services, and would be enforced by removal from the app stores.

    Then, the logical next step for the government when this doesn't work would be to allow this requirement at the OS level.

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