UK is much worse than EU in terms of privacy and encryption.

It will not be if chat control passes, and I am not sure it was true most of the time before (there was no significant change between Brexit and the Online Safety Act)

There were similar problems in areas other than privacy and encryption, or indeed technology.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45274678

Key disclosure was law at least a decade before Brexit, so was compatible with EU law, and the other change (the chat control like one) was in the Online Safety Act (and has not been enforced so far because its not technically feasible), so that does not contradict my claim (if that was your intention).

It is, but i would rather take toothless UK's one over EU's Orwellian nightmare.

UK's one is easily avoided.

But reality is that NONE of those options should be even considered.

It might be easily avoided now, but it's easy for them to tighten the reins in the future.

how so?

What do you mean by backfire?

A massive unrest and protests.

as another comment suggest "A massive unrest and protests."

but not for chat control but another things, they have going much worse