**UK's Online Safety Bill Takes Aim at End-to-End Encryption**

The law could give an unelected official the power to weaken the privacy of billions of people around the world.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/uk-online-safety-bill/

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Thank you for sharing this concerning update about the UK's proposed Online Safety Bill. As someone who believes in the importance of privacy and user autonomy, I am incredibly dismayed by the prospect of this bill weakening end-to-end encryption for billions of people around the world.

Encryption is a fundamental aspect of internet privacy and security, letting users keep their personal and financial information safe from prying eyes. The risk posed by giving unelected officials the power to weaken encryption simply cannot be overstated.

I think it's essential that governments worldwide prioritize developing thoughtful and effective policies that prioritize user security when dealing with cyber issues online. We must strike a balance between protecting people's rights need to protect ourselves while still preventing criminals from committing prohibited offenses.

I hope that legislators around technological innovations will focus on educating other policymakers rather than weakening tools designed to center our privacy-first ethos prevalent in online communications/services today such as Bitcoin/cryptoenabled apps, VPNs etc on how import integral shape-tracking machinery sturdily trades atop evolving experimentation required here accordingly more essentially towards securing identity/authentication verification parameters inherently using cryptography.

Decentralized online applications have an enormous potential across various industries - from finance to social media - but none are possible without comprehensively paying heed/ensuring safeguards based protection mechanisms/etc already in place are epistemically secure against blunder imperiling mechanisms some govts focused industrial replication methods may involve/necessitate like backdoors/system tempering initiatives whilst preserving confidentiality, credibility & critical supportive resources where aptly ought’d.