Governments square up for a fight with big tech over encryption
Governments square up for a fight with big tech over encryption
Experts on both side of the encryption divide think a compromise is unlikely to be reached
By
James Cook
15 November 2020 • 9:00pm
A smartphone with the WhatsApp logo and numbers (illustration)
Governments are increasingly keen to get their hands on encrypted messages sent through apps such as WhatsApp CREDIT: The Telegraph
It was March 2016 and Robert Hannigan, the carefully spoken head of GCHQ, walked up to a podium at MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
Experts on both side of the encryption divide think a compromise is unlikely to be reached
By
James Cook
15 November 2020 • 9:00pm
A smartphone with the WhatsApp logo and numbers (illustration)
Governments are increasingly keen to get their hands on encrypted messages sent through apps such as WhatsApp CREDIT: The Telegraph
It was March 2016 and Robert Hannigan, the carefully spoken head of GCHQ, walked up to a podium at MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
