Security services must be allowed to crack into encrypted messaging services or terrorists will enjoy a digital “place to hide,” Britain’s top security official said Sunday, re-igniting a fiery debate over privacy on the Internet. Amber Rudd, the U.K.’s home secretary, made the comments after police discovered that London’s Westminster attacker had sent a text via WhatsApp just before his rampage. Rudd said investigators have been unable to access the message sent on the hugely popular service. “It is completely unacceptable, there should be no place for terrorists to hide,” Rudd told the BBC. Plus, the developers of WhatsApp say, before the advent of the telephone, authorities never had an easy way of snooping on their citizens.

Source: National Post March 26, 2017 22:18 UTC