If popular messaging apps like Snapchat and WhatsApp fail to make their data available to intelligence agencies, a re-elected David Cameron would consider banning them, he warned on Monday - prompting teenagers to faint everywhere.
If popular messaging apps like Snapchat and WhatsApp fail to make their data available to intelligence agencies, a re-elected David Cameron would consider banning them, he warned on Monday.
Threatening to ban the multi-chin (perishable) midnight selfie (a move that would surely marginalise Britain’s youthful electorate), Cameron aimed his remarks towards messaging apps that encrypt messages to secure users’ communications in the wake of the recent Paris attacks.
Popular messaging apps provide “safe spaces” for terrorists to communicate, he claimed.
“Are we going to allow a means of communications which it simply isn’t possible to read?” Cameron said. “My answer to that question is: ‘No, we must not.’ “
“Let me stress again, this cannot happen unless the home secretary personally signs a warrant. We have a better system for safeguarding this very intrusive power than probably any other country that I can think of,” he continued.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_kqM0gn63M
Cameron didn’t specifically outline apps that would face any ban, but apps that currently use encryption include WhatsApp, Snapchat, iMessage, FaceTime and Wickr.
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