"Britain’s got some of Europe’s toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more"

When tech service corporations are forced to provide the state with encryption-evading backdoors to their platforms, personal privacy will become a niche preserve for those with the knowledge and inclination to roll their own solutions. And they in turn will be seen by the surveillance state as inherently suspect.

#privacy #DataSecurity #intelligence #SurveillanceState #encryption

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-bulking-up-spying-regime-breakneck-speed/