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Rudd advocates more snooping powers

Infinite Chaos

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There must be "no place for terrorists to hide" and intelligence services must have access to encrypted messaging services, the home secretary has said.
Khalid Masood killed four people in Westminster this week. It is understood his phone had connected to messaging app WhatsApp two minutes earlier. Link.
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I disagree, if the govt wants to get into private messaging, they should develop technology to break encryption rather than using law to force tech companies to hand over private communications. Besides, it was only last year that there was a feature on EU ministers at a meeting all relying on WhatsApp rather than official channels as there was a greater guarantee of privacy for their communication.
 
Infinite Chaos said:
I disagree, if the govt wants to get into private messaging, they should develop technology to break encryption rather than using law to force tech companies to hand over private communications. Besides, it was only last year that there was a feature on EU ministers at a meeting all relying on WhatsApp rather than official channels as there was a greater guarantee of privacy for their communication.
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They already have a way around it, that is what the last Wikileaks leak was about, they get around the encryption by essentially just screenshotting your screen right before you send the message. The British just seem to not care about privacy.
 
It's the UK, the politicians there wont stop until it turns into Orwell's Airstrip 1.
 
PoS said:
It's the UK, the politicians there wont stop until it turns into Orwell's Airstrip 1.
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My bet is still on Singapore becoming the first true big brother state but the UK is trying to race them there.
 
PoS said:
It's the UK, the politicians there wont stop until it turns into Orwell's Airstrip 1.
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The EU has pushed for this harder - they are looking at fines for companies. Facebook didn't help themselves when they shared WhatsApp data with the parent company but all in all, get off your horse and look where the threat really lies. If the UK pushes for new laws, it does it on its own and with a market of 60 million. If the EU does it, it has the market and clout of 400 million behind it.

Which do YOU think will force WhatsApp to change first?
 
She is scapegoating. The internet nor Whatsapp did not radicalise this guy... the underfunded British prison system did.

Also she clearly does not know what she is talking about. Basically she wants to end, end to end encryption... that includes online banking and shopping.... think that is wise Mrs Rudd? Opening up end to end encryption to security forces, means hackers and criminals will get access as well, and frankly terrorism is no where near as big a problem for society as hackers and criminals are...
 
Forcing companies to build in back doors will just incentivize more people to turn to free, open-source encryption options. So those companies will suffer financially for nothing.
 
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