Asked for her view on companies which offer end-to-end encrypted messages, Rudd said: “It is completely unacceptable, there should be no place for terrorists to hide. PRIVACY VS SECURITYBrian Paddick, a home affairs spokesman for the opposition Liberal Democrats and former deputy assistant commissioner in the Metropolitan Police, said the security services could view “the content of suspected terrorists’ encrypted messages”. “The real question is, could lives have been saved in London last week if end-to-end encryption had been banned? Also Read: WhatsApp denies security issue with its end-to-end encryption“This is something completely different. We’re not saying open up, we don’t want to go into the Cloud, we don’t want to do all sorts of things like that,” she said.

Source: Indian Express March 27, 2017 05:58 UTC