Minister says encryption on messaging services is unacceptableTechnology companies must cooperate more with law enforcement agencies and should stop offering a "secret place for terrorists to communicate" using encrypted messages, British interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday. 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. "We need to make sure that our intelligence services have the ability to get into situations like encrypted WhatsApp." 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?

Source: Libya Today March 26, 2017 13:41 UTC