The UK government appears to have pulled back on a controversial clause in its forthcoming Online Safety Bill that would have forced tech companies to snoop on users’ messages. Clause 110 of the mammoth piece of legislation enables regulator Ofcom to force messaging providers to use “accredited technology” to perform so-called “client-side scanning.” That is, they would need to scan messages before they are end-to-end encrypted in order to check against a database of child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) content.

Source: Infosecurity