Primebaze.com.ng Enjoy WhatsApp while you still
can.
Britons could see the hugely
popular cross-
platform app BANNED under
strict new laws on
social media and online
messaging services.
Prime Minister David Cameron is
pressing ahead
with new legislation that plans to
stop people from
sending any form of encrypted
messages.
A number of popular messaging
services –
including WhatsApp , iMessage
and Snapchat –
currently scramble
communications between their
users.
If the controversial new
legislation is passed in the
coming weeks all three services
could be outlawed
in the United Kingdom.
“In our country, do we want to
allow a means of
communication between people
which we cannot
read?” said Prime Minister
Cameron earlier this
year.
"My answer to that question is:
'No, we must not’.”
The news comes weeks after
WhatsApp was
named one of the worst apps for
user privacy .
David Cameron has spoken out
against encrypted
messaging services, like
WhatsApp.
Private online communications
will be opened-up
by the Government's "Snooper's
Charter" – or the Investigatory
Powers Bill could be passed this
Autumn.
The recent spate of terrorist
attacks – including the
shooting of 30 Britons on a
beach in Tunisia – has
prompted the Conservative
Government to act fast.
British police currently make a
request to access
personal metadata – texts,
emails, phone calls and
internet searches – once every
two minutes in the
UK, according to data from
campign group Big
Brother Watch.
"We have always been able, on
the authority of the
Home Secretary, to sign a
warrant and intercept a
phone call, a mobile phone call or
other media
communications," Mr Cameron
added.
A slew of popular messaging
services could be at
risk, thanks to encryption of
users' data.