At issue is a bill on online safety, currently being considered by the House of Lords. At issue is the desire to make users' messages legible in order to detect terrorist or child pornography content.
The bill plans to impose fines, up to 10% of global turnover, on platforms that refuse to comply. "The bill does not provide any explicit protection for encryption," said a coalition of platforms joined by WhatsApp and Signal. A measure that could, they say, "compromise the privacy of all users"