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British PM Wants U.S. To Aid In Encryption Crackdown

  • Guardian, Thursday, January 15, 2015 1:29 PM
Not only is David Cameron vowing to ban encrypted messaging services like SnapChat and WhatsApp (if his intelligence services are not able to decode the communications), but Britain’s Prime Minister wants U.S. officials to follow suit. “David Cameron is to urge Barack Obama to pressure internet firms such as Twitter and Facebook to do more to cooperate with Britain’s intelligence agencies as they seek to track the online activities of Islamist extremists,” The Guardian reports.

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