Keep on eye on the Online Safety Bill moving to arguments in September. They want to obliterate encryption and scan on the user side. While I support making children safer Online where possible, loss of privacy will never produce a solution at scale and will make everyone less free.

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I've seen that. They try to push a variation of this exact same thing under a new name every few years with a different moral panic as the excuse.

My prediction: the language requiring a backdoor into encryption will be dropped and they know it, it's just a bargaining chip, plus it leads the public to feel relieved because "at least it's not as bad as it could have been."

Both Tories and Labour do this all the time.