I'm not a Brexiteer (never was either), but frankly I'm disgusted at the EU for this. People elsewhere on this thread keep bringing up Priti Patel and how she's much worse than an encryption ban, but she's a useless wench who won't be able to do shit, and at least we can kick her out of Cabinet, unlike the faceless super-bureaucracy of the EU.

It's not like Britain is any better than the EU in how it treats encryption. I remember them demanding private keys from Whatsapp. Though I agree it's much easier to lobby for change in a single country than to lobby change in a democratically deficient structure like the EU, where you first have to change local governments in EU countries, which in turn have to change eurocomissars, who will propose new legislation to the European parliament, where you too have to have the majority on your side.

Perhaps. Feeling is different to being, however. If the latest abuses of secondary legislation in the name of coronavirus and our government’s general disregard for the law doesn’t scare the sovereign types, I’m not sure what will

Personally, I think this proposal does not mean much unless it actually passes parliament, which I find very unlikely (if it actually bans encryption like the title suggests, that is).