Messaging service WhatsApp has rejected a UK Government request to create a way to access encrypted messages earlier this year, reports Sky News, citing an anonymous security source.
The British Government reportedly asked WhatsApp in a meeting during summer to produce technical solutions that would allow access — known as a backdoor
Sky News reports that 80%t of investigations into terrorism and serious crime are affected by encryption.
Creating a backdoor would be problematic, as some in the tech community have already pointed out.
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Apple’s Tim Cook has previously said that weakening encryption would hurt the public, while terrorists would just find new ways to communicate.
