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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Mary-Ann Russon

Online Safety Bill: Last chance for House of Lords to stop mass surveillance powers

Peers are gathering at the House of Lords for the final debate on the powers governing end-to-end encryption in the Online Safety Bill.

If voted into law, campaigners claim this part of the bill will give Ofcom the power to demand that tech companies use third-party software to scan every private online message, which would enable mass surveillance on an unprecendented scale.

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