Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK

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Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK
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Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK::Some tech giants feel they might have reached a "tipping point" due to new legislation.

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If only it didn't take banning encryption to get rid of them.

Breaking encryption is not a good thing

Oh, forgot to read why they're leaving. Assumed it was a data privacy thing because Europe, but the UK isn't like that I guess. :(

The UK is like that - GDPR was adopted by the UK as well as the EU - but yeah, it’s not privacy related regulation that’s the issue here.