British Secretary of State for the Home Department Amber cyprinid needs WhatsApp to convey intelligence agencies access to encrypted messages following last week's City of Westminster attack that left four dead.
Appearing on the BBC's "The St. Andrew Marr Show", cyprinid additionally concerned social media giants to confirm that they do not "provide a secret place for terrorists to speak with one another." She plans to satisfy with social media firms later in the week to hunt their facilitate in fighting terrorist act, per Bloomberg.
This is not the primary time governments have taken issue with technical school firms over access to encrypted content. In 2015, for example, Edmund Hillary Clinton urged geographic area to get together with the government's fight against terrorist act. simply over a year past, the FBI demanded that Apple provides it access to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone 5C. many weeks later, WhatsApp was at the middle of a dispute with the Department of Justice over encrypted messages.
Police have reportedly discovered that the City of Westminster assailant, Khalid Masood, connected to WhatsApp 3 minutes before the attack. however they do not understand the contents of any messages that he could have sent or received. this is often as a result of all messages sent on WhatsApp have end-to-end coding, which suggestssomebody wants direct access to the device to browse them.
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