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A company withdraws its strongest encryption from an entire national market rather than weaken it — under a notice issued under the UK's Investigatory Powers Act 2016, which it challenged.
In plain words
A company withdraws its strongest encryption from a whole country rather than build the access a secret notice under that country's surveillance law demanded: release and re-enclosure with no interval between them.
The mechanism
RELEASE → RE-ENCLOSURE, WITH THE INTERVAL AT ZERO — the enclosure needs no new statute. A secret notice under an existing one is sufficient
How it was checked
- EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED; a capture; a release
- Letter eraTHE RAIL YOU ARE ON 2001 to 2026
- SourcesSECULAR RECORD — the withdrawal, publicly announced
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