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France pushes for law enforcement access to Signal, WhatsApp and encrypted email
(www.computerweekly.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2025
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Services will simply have to stop storing messages, encrypted or otherwise.
They could just make that illegal too. ISPs in the UK are legally compelled to store all of their customers' internet activity for at least a year. I also found it interesting that there's been a minor scandal over the Home Office asking Apple to backdoor their end-to-end encryption, but no such scandal over the encryption which Apple provides by default on iCloud - I think it's almost certain that Apple gave up the keys to the UK (or someone in five eyes) quietly, and that the only reason they withdrew the end-to-end version from the UK is that the Home Office's request for a backdoor was leaked to the Washington Post.
All in all, the only person you can trust to encrypt your data is you.