Facebook, Microsoft, and Google said the new England digital espionage law is “a step in the wrong direction.”

The largest US IT companies have united in the criticism of the proposed new laws on digital espionage in the UK. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Twitter argue that such actions by the UK government can have "far-reaching consequences." Companies warn that other countries may follow the example of the United Kingdom, approving similar bills that approve controversial measures to track information. This includes, for example, forcing Internet providers to keep records of any activity on the network of every citizen of a country.

The bill was introduced by Home Secretary of the United Kingdom Teresa May last year. Ms. May herself claims that he is called upon to help combat organized crime, terrorism, and digital intimidation. However, experts in the IT industry have strongly criticized the bill mainly for the fact that it could potentially give the state too much control over the activities of people on the Internet. They also focused on unclear wording in the bill.

In addition, it is highly likely that as a result of the adoption of this bill, IT firms will be forced to weaken their cryptographic protection of information. And while Teresa May herself claims the opposite, the proposed bill she speaks of "obligations that relate to the removal of electronic protection applied by the relevant operator to any data."
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Apple CEO Tim Cook said in November that the adoption of this bill could have dire consequences. He said that the weakening of encryption will have a negative impact not on those who are engaged in “dirty” affairs, but on ordinary people who are not plotting anything unkind. ” According to him, those in respect of whom this law has been passed, know very well how to hide and what to use for this.