As we know, in this case, after going public, Apple removed encryption for UK users <https://support.apple.com/en-us/122234> rather than acquiesce. What we don't know is how many others may have invisibly submitted. The news came in this week <https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/gsma-embraces-e2ee-standards-2/> that GSMA’s latest update to the Rich Communication Services (RCS) standard explicitly cites the definition of end-to-end encryption <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-knodel-e2ee-definition-11.html> (E2EE) developed by Mallory Knodel, Sofía Celi (Brave), Olaf Kolkman (Internet Society), and Gurshabad Grover, and in process to become an IETF standard. Meanwhile the UK Government has set 2035 as a deadline <https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/pqc-migration-timelines> for domestic organizations to transition to post-quantum encryption (PQC). 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