WhatsApp head Will Cathcart has issued a warning over the potential effect of the Online Safety Bill on the chat app
(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)As the controversial Online Safety Bill continues to make its way through Parliament, the head of WhatsApp has signalled that the company would rather block the app in the UK than break its end-to-end encryption as the unmodified law would require.
“The Bill provides for technology notices requiring communication providers to take away end-to-end encryption — to break it,” Will Cathcart told The Telegraph. “The hard reality is we offer a global product. It would be a very hard decision for us to make a change where 100 per cent of our users lower their security.”
