WhatsApp and UK government on collision course, as app vows not to remove end-to-end encryption

he boss of WhatsApp, the most popular messaging platform in the UK, says that it
will not remove end-to-end encryption from the app to comply with requirements
set out in the UK government’s online safety bill.

What’s the argument about?  Well, let me make it very simple to understand.

Governments don’t like end-to-end encrypted messaging.  They would like to be
able to read people’s encrypted messages. Which I can understand, because
criminals do use encrypted messaging when doing evil things