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WhatsApp Would Not Remove End-To-End Encryption For UK Law, Says Chief
He said: “It’s a remarkable thing to think about. There isn’t a way to change it in just one part of the world. Some countries have chosen to block it: that’s the reality of shipping a secure product. We’ve recently been blocked in Iran, for example. But we’ve never seen a liberal democracy do that. “The reality is, our users all around the world want security,” said Cathcart. “Ninety-eight per cent of our users are outside the UK. They do not want us to lower the security of the product, and just as a straightforward matter, it would be an odd choice for us to choose to lower the security of the product in a way that would affect those 98% of users.”
The UK government already has the power to demand the removal of encryption thanks to the 2016 investigatory powers act, but WhatsApp has never received a legal demand to do so, Cathcart said. The online safety bill is a concerning expansion of that power, because of the “grey area” in the legislation. Under the bill, the government or Ofcom could require WhatsApp to apply content moderation policies that would be impossible to comply with without removing end-to-end encryption. If the company refused to do, it could face fines of up to 4% of its parent company Meta’s annual turnover — unless it pulled out of the UK market entirely.
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Ian Fleming’s classic Bond novels have been re-worded to remove racist material
IAN Fleming’s James Bond novels have been re-worded to remove racial references.
Every 007 book is to be re-issued this spring to mark 70 years since the spy appeared.
Ian Fleming Publications commissioned a review by sensitivity readers of the classic texts – pictured Sean Connery[/caption]
But a woke disclaimer will read: “This book was written at a time when terms and attitudes which might be considered offensive by modern readers were commonplace.
“A number of updates have been made in this edition, while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set.”
The changes result in some depictions of black people being reworked or removed.
But dated references to other ethnicities, including Bond’s racial terms for Asian people, remain.
His comments about “blithering women” and homosexuality being a “stubborn disability” are also kept.
Ian Fleming Publications, the firm that owns the literary rights to the author’s work, commissioned a review by sensitivity readers of the classic texts under its control.
The N-word, which Fleming used to refer to black people when he was writing in the 1950s and ’60s, has been almost entirely expunged, the Telegraph reports.
Ian Fleming Publications said: “We encourage people to read the books for themselves when the new paperbacks are published.”
It comes after passages from Roald Dahl’s books were purged by children’s publisher Puffin.