BBC: Online Safety Bill: Plan to make big tech remove harmful content axed

The BBC is reporting ‘Online Safety Bill: Plan to make big tech remove harmful content axed’, which in their view is because they want to get it through the system faster; which is bad enough but this single sentence worries me on a different level as it reads to me like a government sanctioned back door into one to one communications.

“In some scenarios the bill permits the government to direct companies to use technology to examine private messages.”

Read the full article here, and the bill here to make up your own mind on that!