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Originally Posted by Chris
The EU is implementing the Digital Services Act, and it differs in a crucial respect from the UK’s Online Safety Bill (it isn’t an Act until Parliament has passed it and it gets Royal assent). The EU measures do not attempt to force services to break their own encryption to allow GCHQ, MI5 or your local council to snoop on your WhatsApp account whenever they feel it necessary. In other respects it is similar in that that requires online service providers to do better at data profiling and dealing with inappropriate content or abuse of their services.
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We said earlier that the UK Government would probably fudge the issue to save face and that's exactly what they've done!