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by jgust 1125 days ago
That sounds like an argument for banning WhatsApp in favor of transparency...
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The UK government will never pass legislation to increase transparency to their own conduct (I doubt any government would), so encryption and opacity will remain.
> The UK government will never pass legislation to increase transparency to their own conduct (I doubt any government would)

Lots of governments do.

Can you share more? I'm interested in both success stories and failed attempts.
The whole set of overlapping classes of “freedom of information”, “open meeting”, and “sunshine”/“digital sunshine” laws are all laws adopted by various jurisdictions directed at the transparency of government operations and official conduct within certain bounds.