Submitted on Tuesday 1st August 2023
Rejected on Tuesday 8th August 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
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The government should withdraw their plan to access personal encrypted messages
We ask the government to publicise the consultation process so that an informed debate involving all stakeholders could lead to a radical rethink. The proposed amendment to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 in order to monitor global messaging services & access our private messages must be abandoned
Access to messages would break end to end encryption created to protect our personal data security. Apple, WhatsApp, Signal & Wikipedia are consequently threatening to withdraw their services from the UK. Also, the government’s own record of data security puts our personal data in danger of hacking. It is a good motive to police child pornography and other vile uses of the internet, but intrusive & risky ‘back door’ access to private messaging would destroy our rights to personal data protection
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action, and we're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.
Your petition refers to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, but provisions to give Ofcom the power to require service providers to use accredited technology to tackle terrorism content and Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) content and/or develop and source technology to tackle CSEA content are included in the Online Safety Bill, not proposed amendments to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
It's also not clear if you want just want relevant legislative provisions to be withdrawn, or also a consultation to be held on alternative approaches to tackling terrorism content and CSEA content.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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