Comment by like_any_other
12 days ago
"Fully open" is a strawman. These are not names of MI5 agents, or a list of active police investigations. This is a massive breach of privacy of every UK citizen, and forced recruitment of every company into a government informant, forcing them to lie to their users that they're being given privacy, whilst informing on them.
It is trying to keep the existence of the Stasi a secret.
I'd be willing to bet if the government had to pick between publishing the list of all spies names Vs having backdoor access to all Comms, they'd pick having the backdoor access.