93 percent of British adults believe they have a right to private conversations online, while 89 percent think nobody should be able to access their personal messages without a court order.

[wen@mastodon.scot]

93 percent of British adults believe they have a right to private conversations online, while 89 percent think nobody should be able to access their personal messages without a court order. Two things stick out, concern that ‘back doors’ will leave them open to being compromised by bad actors (other than gornment) and a majority (across the political spectrum) do not trust the current or any future government.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/30/turns-out-brits-would-quite-like-their-private-messages-to-stay-private/5292994

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