Recently, government officials behind closed doors discussing how to solve the problem of access to encrypted messages and phone calls to WhatsApp. Since 2014 owned by Facebook messenger company.
During the investigation of the crime (what exactly is unknown, but it is not about terrorism), the court approved the law enforcement surveillance of phones of suspects, but because of the encryption WhatsApp they could not get access to the application. Because of this, and there was a discussion on how to circumvent this encryption.
In 2015, WhatsApp has introduced encryption end-to-end, which does not allow the authorities to get access to the messages and listen to calls even when the relevant decision of the court. Messages see only the sender and the recipient, they will not be able to decipher even the creators of the messenger. This deprives the police able to read someone else's conversation.
By the decision of the officials of the concrete is not yet come. But amid the Apple public conflict and the FBI about the hacking smartphone terrorist litigation with WhatsApp could be a new stage in the administration of US President Barack Obama's dispute with technology companies about encryption, security and confidentiality of information. Representatives of the US Department of Justice and WhatsApp declined to comment.
In February, the US scandal about hacking iPhone terrorist: Apple refused to help the FBI to circumvent the encryption and access the information on the iPhone, despite the court's decision. This argument was supported by Apple technology companies such as WhatsApp, Google, Facebook, Twitter.
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