In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting and its succeeding events in France, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has expressed concern over the encryption of messaging applications. David Cameron, who has held the position since 2010, made it clear he would serve a ban to messaging apps that failed to uncover messages even with the inclusion of a warrant. The government wants access to the data because it provides the chance to prevent, identify, or act on a crisis.
Snapchat, Apple iMessage/FaceTime, and WhatsApp are just some of the services to encrypt their data. Those services, and others, are highly unlikely to give access to the government; therefore, expect this situation to drag out for months before any actual progress is made.
Source: The Independent
Via: Phone Arena
Who does Cameron think he his? Good old Bush using so called terrorist attacks as a way to snoop on everyone, which by the way they already have been doing.What about the point they always
make that the terrorists will not take our freedoms? Which they they don’t have to because your government will do that for them, sick of this bullshit..
Easier to ban cellphones in UK i guess :P
Dave doesn’t know his arse from his elbow when it comes to I.T….
Expect no less from the UK government than to want to spy on its population in even more ways. Glad this idiot will be gone before this ever passes. Mind you, most people are such sheep and love ‘oh, I dont have anything to hide’ so much that they wont argue if he tries to shove this invasion of privacy through. Idiots and extremists are always going to exist and it is IMPOSSIBLE to stop them doing stupid stuff. That’s just life…. sh*t happens!