We’re part of an open letter asking the UK government to rethink the Online Safety Bill to protect end-to-end encryption and respect privacy.

Read the letter here: element.io/blog/the-uks-online

@element @matrix ah! Element is a UK based company. What does it mean specifically for the users of Element if this Online Safety Bill becomes the law in UK?

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@adnan @element that the UK government might block us from the UK app stores, much as China has.

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Hmm.. so does this law only apply to end user apps and not to services that route e2e encrypted messages between those apps (or even to keyservers that facilitate the initial handshake)?

I may be asking for legal advice 😄

@adnan @matrix @element I dont think it will affect the protocol itself in a sense that Non-EU matrix homeservers should not be affected by this and third party clients for matrix that do not send telemetry anywhere shouldnt either.

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