Rejected petition Cease efforts to remove strong cryptography from digital services.

Successive governments have villainised end-to-end encryption as a core tenet of criminality. This is misguided and will have a negative effect on law-abiding people.

I call on the government to reconsider this issue in consultation with computer scientists, cryptographers, and criminologists.

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The government’s crackdown on end-to-end encryption sets a dangerous precedent for privacy and data security in the UK. Indeed, this new status quo could undermine global data security.

As a computer scientist, I want to clarify: end-to-end encryption is not a nefarious spectre used only by drug dealers and terrorists; it is a foundational set of mathematical principles designed to protect everyone.

Digital communication is not the enemy; in-person conversations have always been an option.

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Date submitted 22 February 2025
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