After Terror Attacks, Britain Moves to Police the Web
“You need end-to-end encryption because it stops anyone from listening in.”
British lawmakers say law enforcement and intelligence agencies need such access to foil potential terrorist plots.
“I’d like to see the industry go further and faster in not only removing online terrorist content,
but stopping it going up in the first place,” Amber Rudd, the country’s home secretary, said before meeting with tech executives this year.
“We need to do everything we can at home to reduce the risks of extremism online,” she told the British
public, echoing a similar message by her government after a previous attack in Manchester.
On one side are British policy makers and law enforcement officials, who want to crack
down on how extremist messaging and communication are spread across the internet.
