UK government accused of being misleading over new laws affecting encryption

The British government has been accused of being misleading about the significance of new proposed powers that would allow security officials to intervene if technology companies planned on introducing end-to-end encryption to their messaging services. Under the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill, officials in Westminster would be able to issue notices to tech companies on a

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