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WhatsApp, Signal and other messaging services have urged the government to rethink the Online Safety Bill (OSB).
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They are concerned that the bill could undermine end-to-end encryption - which means the message can only be read on the sender and the recipient's device and nowhere else.
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Matthew Hodgson, chief executive of UK messaging service Element, warns that 鈥渢he terrifying thing is you basically end up creating a honeypot, a database, of all this unencrypted material that obviously the moderators have to have access to.鈥�
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He tells 5 Live鈥檚 Naga Munchetty this database is likely to also include 鈥渃ompletely innocent private conversations, photos of kids in baths, or medical images鈥�.

The Home Office told 5 Live, 鈥渨e support strong encryption, but this cannot come at the cost of public safety. The Online Safety Bill in no way represents a ban on end-to-end encryption, nor will it require services to weaken encryption鈥�.
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This clip is originally from Naga Munchetty on Tuesday 18 April 2023.