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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Mary-Ann Russon

WhatsApp considering leaving the UK over Online Safety Bill privacy concerns

Meta, the owner of WhatsApp, is considering pulling the popular private messaging app from the UK over an ongoing row regarding the contentious proposed Online Safety Bill, ministers have been warned.

Children’s charities and the UK Home Office have in the last few years raised concerns that tech giants need to take responsibility for detecting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and terrorism content in social media networks.

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