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Bigger than those names, might be companies in the finance industry (the largest economic sector in London, if not the entire UK) which shouldn't wish to a lower levels of encryption available to protect information flows critical to their businesses. The EFF or other activists should be lobbying that industry's leaders to explain what's at risk here. The finance industry has a much stronger sway with the UK gov't than your standard privacy advocates.



Or there will be an exception for "Critical to the National Interest" traffic, so banking data would be exempt.




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