"MarketWatch" said : WhatsApp is giving terrorists a place to hide, U.K. minister says

As it stated in See: 5 ways to keep the government from spying on youHome Secretary Amber Rudd on Sunday called it "unacceptable" that technology firms offered end-to-end encryption, which she said gives terrorists places to hide. An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.comPopular on WSJ.com:White House Opens Door to Democrats in Wake of Health-Bill FailureThe High-Speed Trading Behind Your Amazon Purchase LONDON—British officials tore into technology companies for what they said was profiting from terrorist propaganda and offering secret places to communicate, in strong criticism of Silicon Valley days after a terrorist rampage outside Parliament left four people dead. U.K. officials have locked horns with technology companies over where to draw the line between user privacy and national security and argued that internet providers have a responsibility to police their sites to stop people from being radicalized online. "We need to make sure organizations like WhatsApp, and there are plenty of others like that, don't provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other," Rudd told the British Broadcasting Corp. "We need to make sure that our intelligence services have the ability to get into situations like encrypted WhatsApp."The British media has reported that suspected attacker Khalid Masood looked at WhatsApp in the minutes before the attack, but police wouldn't confirm that.


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WhatsApp must not be 'secret place for terrorists to communicate', says home secretary – video


WhatsApp must not be 'secret place for terrorists to communicate', says home secretary – video
The home secretary, Amber Rudd, says WhatsApp and other messaging applications must not provide a secret platform for terrorists to communicate. Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Rudd said that the government's intelligence services should have access to encrypted messages, following reports that Khalid Masood had used the service prior to the Westminster attack

WhatsApp must not be 'place for terrorists to hide'
Speaking to BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Ms Rudd said: "It is completely unacceptable, there should be no place for terrorists to hide. "But on this situation we need to make sure that our intelligence services have the ability to get into situations like encrypted WhatsApp." All messages sent on WhatsApp have end-to-end encryption, meaning they are unreadable if intercepted by anyone, including law enforcement and WhatsApp itself. "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. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Amber Rudd: "Intelligence services need to be able to get into encrypted services like WhatsApp"There must be "no place for terrorists to hide" and intelligence services must have access to encrypted messaging services, the home secretary has said.


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