Open letter to Rishi Sunak warns of UK Online Safety Bill threat to business and personal security

Coalition of rights groups and thinktanks raises fears over unintended consequences.

While the removal of a provision to regulate “legal but harmful” online material in the UK’s Online Safety Bill has generated headlines, fears over a threat to end-to-end encryption has prompted 70 organizations, cybersecurity experts and politicians to express their concerns in an open letter to UK Prime Minister Rishi

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