WhatsApp: According to a report, WhatsApp would refuse to abide by the UK government’s planned Internet Safety Bill, according to Will Cathcart, the CEO of Meta, the maker of the well-known messaging programme. If adopted, internet publishing companies would be responsible for publishing abuse of various kinds, such as child sexual abuse, cyberbullying, extreme sexual violence, fraud, hate speech, inciting violence, and revenge porn, among others. Also, they would have to get rid of these forms.
WhatsApp would refuse to comply
As a result, the UK’s Office of Communications, or Ofcom, would be given enforcement authority. The ability for private encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp “to employ ‘approved technology’ to identify and remove child-abuse material,” according to critics, is one of these. WhatsApp would refuse to comply if this happened since they would be forced to stop using end-to-end encryption.
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Seven out of ten persons in the UK use WhatsApp
98 percent of our users are from outside the UK, according to Cathcart. They do not want us to compromise the product’s security, and it would be a strange decision on our part to do so in a way that would negatively impact 98 percent of consumers, to put it simply. More than seven out of ten persons in the UK use WhatsApp, making it the most widely used messaging programme.
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