Rejected petition: Do not decrypt and scan private messages
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There have been recent efforts to slowly and unnecessarily remove encryption from private messages online which is a huge invasion of privacy and disguised mass-surveilance.
We call for change to cease all efforts by the government to erode or remove message encryption!
The vast majority of people have—at one point—shared personal/private details or experiences and scanning messages unnecessarily would be a massive invasion of our rights.
Not to mention putting all our private messages and information into databases would be a huge security risk as it allows hackers to see everything we sent with one data breach, essentially (for most of us) giving them blackmail material & access to private info we mentioned or sent in our messages.
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
We understand you're concerned about encryption laws, but we're not exactly sure what you'd like the Government and Parliament to do.
We could accept a petition calling the Government to change the law so that encrypted messages cannot be accessed by authorities such as the security services or police, if that's something that you'd like to see.
For example, we previously published this petition which has now closed:
Repeal the Investigatory Powers Act: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/717199
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.