“There is no technological solution to the contradiction inherent in both keeping information confidential from third parties and sharing that same information with third parties.”
The Online Safety Bill is in the House of Lords and would enable routine monitoring of private messages in the name of stopping child abuse material. The researchers who build the encryption say it cannot be done without breaking it. Any access the State gets also goes to future governments, police across every force and whoever breaches the monitoring system. Parliament is legislating a backdoor that only works for the good guys, and that kind has never existed.