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Home Secretary Amber Rudd has criticised the use of encryption in communications apps, such as WhatsApp and Telegram.
It follows the Westminster terrorist attack in London last week and claims that the attacker sent a WhatsApp message just prior to the incident.
Rudd appeared on television over the weekend to demand that the government – and, presumably, governments everywhere – should have a ‘golden’ decryption key so that online communications could be instantly and easily read by police and security services.
« It is completely unacceptable, there should be no place for terrorists to hide, » she told the BBC Andrew Marr Show.
« We need to make sure that organisations like WhatsApp, and there are plenty of others like that, don’t provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other. »
Rudd went on to suggest that the government would lean on technology firms in a bid to force them to comply.
« We have to have a situation where we can have our security services get into the terrorists’ communications, » she added.
