The nonprofit responsible for the Signal messenger app is prepared to exit the UK if the country requires providers of encrypted communications to alter their products to ensure user messages are free of material that’s harmful to children. E2EE in the crosshairsUnder one provision of the Online Safety Bill, service providers are barred from providing information that’s “encrypted such that it is not possible for [UK telecommunications regulator] Ofcom to understand it, or produces a document which is encrypted such that it is not possible for Ofcom to understand the information it contains,” and when the intention is to prevent the British watchdog agency from understanding such information. impact assessment drafted by the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport explicitly says that E2EE is within the scope of the legislation