UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd on Sunday called for greater government access to encrypted content on mobile apps. Apps with end-to-end encryption, like Facebook’s WhatsApp, should not be allowed to conceal terrorists’ communications from law enforcement, Rudd said in a television interview. “There should be no place for terrorists to hide,” she said. “We need to make sure that organizations like WhatsApp — and there are plenty of others like that — don’t provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other.”
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UK Home Secretary: Apps Shouldn’t Serve as Terrorist Hiding Places
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. March 27, 2017 03:44 PMUK Home Secretary Amber Rudd on Sunday called for greater government access to encrypted content on mobile apps. Apps with end-to-end encryption, like Facebook’s WhatsApp, should not be allowed to conceal terrorists’ communications from law enforcement, Rudd said in a television interview. “There should be no place for terrorists to hide,” she said. “We need to make sure that organizations like WhatsApp — and there are plenty of others like that — don’t provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other.”