Ask HN: Where should a UK-based company move to if encryption is outlawed?
Throwaway account for probably-obvious reasons. We would be grateful if people avoided speculating about who this is in the comments :-) We're a UK-based PaaS. About 90% of our customers are from outside the UK. The party most likely to form the government after the upcoming election here is strongly averse to encryption. Although it remains to be seen what, if any, legislation they will actually enact if they get in, we need to do contingency planning. The worst-case scenario (which, to be clear, we think is very unlikely) is that they might pass laws that would mean we would not be able to offer a service with sufficient security for our international customers. In this - again, we think unlikely - event, we'd either have to close the business, as we can't keep going on our UK revenue only, or we'd have to move to another country. Our question for HN is: which count
Why it failed
Throwaway account for probably-obvious reasons. We would be grateful if people avoided speculating about who this is in the comments :-) We're a UK-based PaaS. About 90% of our customers are from outside the UK. The party most likely to form the government after the upcoming
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- throwawayblwBz
- Ended
- 2017
- Source
- hackernews