UK Home Secretary\u00a0Amber Rudd has told\u00a0technology companies to step up the fight against\u00a0extremism or face new laws.<\/p>\n
According to a report by the BBC<\/strong><\/a>, companies which provide messaging services are “not doing enough to beat the enemy on the Internet”.<\/p>\n Encryption standards used by services like WhatsApp have become a problem, said Rudd – who is set to meet with\u00a0Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft about the issue.<\/p>\n As encrypted messaging services allow users to send information to one another without it being intercepted, governments have warned that terrorists are taking advantage of this security to plan attacks.<\/p>\n Rudd’s statements follow\u00a0Australia proposing a new\u00a0cybersecurity law that will force technology firms to decrypt customer messages<\/strong><\/a> to aid police investigations.<\/p>\n Those against the move have stated that removing encryption will violate users’ rights and reduce the security of messaging services.<\/p>\n UK Home Secretary\u00a0Amber Rudd has told\u00a0technology companies to step up the fight against\u00a0extremism or face new laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":164658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6298,2594],"class_list":["post-222734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-encryption","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222744,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222734\/revisions\/222744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Game of Thrones spoilers posted online after HBO hack<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"