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The Online Safety Bill is a proposed British legislation that seeks to improve online safety by placing certain duty of care obligations on online platforms.

It is offered by default on WhatsApp, Signal, Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime and is an option on Meta’s Messenger and Telegram.

Over the last few years, E2E encryption has been steadily gaining ground.

Even if the platform’s servers are compromised, without the intended recipient’s decryption key, only a garbled string of characters will be available.

Decryption, even by the messaging service provider, is impossible.

The decryption key is unique to each sender-recipient pair and to each of their messages.

E2E encryption ensures that a message can only be decrypted by the intended recipient using a secure decryption key.

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The proposed bill will in effect outlaw end-to-end (E2E) encryption.

Recently, WhatsApp’s head Will Cathcart said that WhatsApp would not comply with the U.K.’s proposed Online Safety Bill (OSB).