The British government decided to leave out the so-called ‘spy clause’ from its upcoming Online Safety Bill at the last minute, but the decision’s only temporary until the technology behind scanning encrypted messages becomes accurate enough, The Register wrote on Thursday, September 7th.
“If the appropriate technology does not exist that meets [certain] requirements, then [the regulators] will not be able to use Clause 122 to require its use,” Stephen Parkinson, a Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport minister said in Westminster on Wednesday. “A notice can be issued only where technically feasible and where technology has been accredited as meeting minimum standards of accuracy.”
