{"id":35631,"date":"2023-09-06T15:50:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=35631"},"modified":"2023-09-06T15:57:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T14:57:35","slug":"government-softens-stance-on-uk-end-to-end-encryption-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/09\/government-softens-stance-on-uk-end-to-end-encryption-ban.html","title":{"rendered":"Government Softens Stance on UK End to End Encryption Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK Government appears to have softened its controversial stance on end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in the looming Online Safety Bill<\/strong><\/a> (OSB), which threatened to undermine the security of internet messaging and communication platforms by allowing private messages to be filtered and moderated.<\/p>\n

The confusing and ugly mess of legislation that is the OSB, which began life as an otherwise noble and desirable policy to help tackle \u201charmful<\/em>\u201d internet content (i.e. via fines, website blocks by broadband ISPs and other sanctions), has in recent years become somewhat of a Frankenstein\u2019s monster.<\/p>\n

One aspect of that was the threat it posed to private communications between people, across all sorts of different platforms – particularly in respect to E2EE, which is a method that any developer can add to help keep everything from financial transactions, to website visits and messaging services secure.<\/p>\n

Unlike regular encryption, which can be broken by hackers and hostile states if the decryption keys are uncovered, E2EE goes further by ensuring those keys are kept hidden, even from the platform provider. The new bill threatened to break this by handing Ofcom<\/a> the power to require that fully encrypted-messaging and other such communication services adopt \u201caccredited technology<\/em>\u201d for content moderation, such as to identify and remove illegal content.<\/p>\n

The problem for E2EE based services is that this approach is incompatible with how the technology works and raised significant security concerns (i.e. you can’t break it and not expect hostile states or hackers not to take advantage), which were enough for major messaging providers (e.g. WhatsApp, Apple and Signal) to warn that they’d sooner exit the UK than be forced to breach user privacy (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Similarly, the proposed workaround for this, which would be to adopt client-side scanning on the device itself (mobile, laptop etc.) – this could check messages BEFORE they are sent – ended up being just as unattractive. It turns out that a lot of people don’t like having the content of their private messages scanned by governments and big companies. Big surprise there.<\/p>\n

What’s Changed in the OSB<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

At this point the government haven’t so much chosen to cut this aspect out of the bill, but rather push the can down the road a bit more. According to the FT<\/a> and other sources, the government will now make it so that Ofcom<\/a> can only require such providers to introduce back-door access when a technology is developed that is capable of scanning networks in such a manner, and even then only as a “last resort<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

The government is expected to say that such a “notice can only be issued where technically feasible and where technology has been accredited as meeting minimum standards of accuracy in detecting only child sexual abuse and exploitation content<\/em>.” But there’s likely to be frustration that the government has left the option open in the law, even if it won’t be strictly enforced.<\/p>\n

James Baker, Campaigns Manager for the Open Rights Group<\/a>, said: <\/strong><\/p>\n

“ORG welcomes news that the government is rowing back on its plans to scan private messages for harmful content. As ORG along with other privacy activists, tech companies, security experts have warned from the start, it is not possible to scan messages that use end-to-end encryption without undermining all users\u2019 privacy and security. We are glad that at the eleventh hour, it would appear that the government has conceded this.<\/p>\n

While this is welcome news, these powers do remain on the statute books and could in the future allow for state-mandated surveillance of our private messages. It would be better if these powers had been completely removed from the Billl.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speaking personally, I also use secure message platforms, such as when communicating with important sources for some of the articles we write. Suffice to say, I would not want either the messaging provider\u2019s staff or government to have any access to those conversations, in any way shape or form. Like many other people, if such methods were to be introduced, then we’d swap to using different platforms that exist outside the UK’s control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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