Opinion
The UK's Online Safety Act Just Made E2E Encryption Illegal
Ofcom quietly issued its first Section 121 notice this spring, the enforcement mechanism buried in the Online Safety Act that requires messaging platforms to scan content for specified material. There is no technical way to do that on an end-to-end encrypted channel without breaking the encryption. The law did not ban E2E directly. It banned the only way it can legally exist.
7 min read·uk, online-safety-act, encryption