PETITIONRejectedPetition · petition.parliament.uk

Do not decrypt and scan private messages

There have been recent efforts to slowly and unnecessarily remove encryption from private messages online which is a huge invasion of privacy and disguised mass-surveilance. We call for change to cease all efforts by the government to erode or remove message encryption!

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Government response threshold (10,000) · 6/10,000

Debate threshold (100,000) · 6/100,000

Petition progress2 events · Oct – Nov 2025

17 NOV 2025
Petition rejected
no-action
We understand you're concerned about encryption laws, but we're not exactly sure what you'd like the Government and Parliament to do. We could accept a petition calling the Government to change the law so that encrypted messages cannot be accessed by authorities such as the security services or police, if that's something that you'd like to see. For example, we previously published this petition which has now closed: Repeal the Investigatory Powers Act: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/717199
03 OCT 2025
Petition created

Background

The vast majority of people have—at one point—shared personal/private details or experiences and scanning messages unnecessarily would be a massive invasion of our rights.

Not to mention putting all our private messages and information into databases would be a huge security risk as it allows hackers to see everything we sent with one data breach, essentially (for most of us) giving them blackmail material & access to private info we mentioned or sent in our messages.