The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, which will destroy end-to-end encryption. No amendments have been accepted that would mitigate the bill’s most dangerous elements. If it passes, the Online Safety Bill will be a huge step backwards for global privacy, and democracy itself.
I’m all for Matrix, but the things is, Matrix is primarily developed by people in the UK. They will be easily forced to implement backdoors.
That’s good to know🙏
Hopefully some trustworthy third party can audit the code if this ever becomes a thing.
I’m not sure auditing would be enough. We would literally need a development team outside of dictatoric countries like the UK, where such things can be forced.