UK says ‘no’ to backdoors, but the government isn’t listening

It doesn’t matter what the UK government says, the majority of the UK public is reluctant to hand over additional surveillance powers that require tech companies to build backdoors to access encrypted communications. That’s based on a poll release Thursday by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a US-based advocacy group. UK officials still want to wreck encryption The poll comes as the UK government renews its attempts to pursue a top secret order to force Apple to build a backdoor in

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