Open Letter from researchers against the online safety bill: https://haddadi.github.io/UKOSBOpenletter.pdf

Online safety bill law text: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-02/0285/210285.pdf

A section of the bill that shows the reach:

A person commits an offence if, in response to an information notice, the person—

(a) provides information which is encrypted such that it is not possible for OFCOM to understand it, or produces a document which is encrypted such that it is not possible for OFCOM to understand the information it contains, and (b) the person’s intention was to prevent OFCOM from understanding such information.

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