The newly installed U.K. Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has accused Facebook of frustrating the fight against terrorists and child abusers, with plans to extend the end-to-end encryption in use by its messaging flagship WhatsApp across the rest of its platform. End-to-end encrypted messaging is a genuine issue for law enforcement. Last month, it was reported that the U.S. government was exploring legislative options to prohibit tech companies from using forms of encryption that law enforcement can’t break—a move described as "a provocative step that would reopen a long-running feud between federal authorities and Silicon Valley." During a meeting hosted by Priti Patel in London this week, representatives from the Five Eyes intelligence agencies—U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand—discussed mandating measures to enable law enforcement to access to end-to-end encrypted platforms, where currently those agencies are "going dark." "We need to ensure that our law enforcement and security and intelligence agencies are able to gain lawful and exceptional access to the information they need,” the U.K. Home Office said in a statement.
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