The U.K. Adopts an Online Safety Bill That Allows Regulation of Encrypted Messaging

Our headline story for this episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast is the U.K.’s sweeping new Online Safety Act, which regulates social media in a host of ways. Mark MacCarthy spells some of them out, but the big surprise is encryption. U.S. encrypted messaging companies used up all the oxygen in the room hyperventilating about the risk that end-to-end encryption would be regulated. Journalists paid little attention in the past year or two to all the other regulatory provisions. And …

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