A top UK official is targeting WhatsApp, after reports that the terrorist who killed four people used the messaging app before launching his attack in London.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said that WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption offered terrorists a safe way to communicate. She said government needs to be able to peer inside the app.
"We need to make sure that organizations like WhatsApp-- and there are plenty of others like that -- don't provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other," she said.
Khalid Masood attacked Westminster Bridge after sending a message on the popular app. The message cannot be accessed because of the encryption by the popular messaging service, a top British security official said on Sunday
Will this affect the so called privacy we so much wanted? It depends on the ferocity of Rudd and of course WhatsApp.
Yet we must know that without a change in the system, terrorists would be able to communicate with each other without fear of being overheard even in cases where a legal warrant has been obtained.
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