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I didn't read that - are you sure about this? I am reading that backdoors are being asked to be created on WhatsApp. Anyway the messages aren't stored. From

I didn't read that - are you sure about this? I am reading that backdoors are being asked to be created on WhatsApp. Anyway the messages aren't stored. From the article: Priti Patel, the U.K.’s home secretary, has previously warned that Facebook’s plan to enable users to send end-to-end encrypted messages would benefit criminals, and called on social media firms to develop “back doors” to give intelligence agencies access to their messaging platforms.

kenny87 7y ago
> has previously warned That's the UK's position but it's not clear from the article that some kind of forced backdoor made it into the treaty, just that WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages. But they have already been sharing encrypted messages through other legal means. More speculation here: https://www.justsecurity.org/24145/u-s-u-k-data-sharing-treaty/ https://www.justsecurity.org/24145/u-s-u-k-data-sharing-trea...
amyboyd 7y ago
> "I didn't read that" Why comment if you didn't read the article? It's in the first paragraph: "Social media platforms based in the U.S. including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty"
- wj 7y ago
  He is saying that he didn't interrupt that from the article--not that he didn't read the article.