Going by the original Sunday Times (UK publication) article[0], it looks like this headline relates to _upcoming_ data sharing legislation which UK Home Secreta

Going by the original Sunday Times (UK publication) article[0], it looks like this headline relates to _upcoming_ data sharing legislation which UK Home Secretary Priti Patel[1], who took that office this July, is expected to sign in October 2019. It's worth putting scrutiny both on the UK's desire to create these backdoors in social media apps (a path that many would argue could lead to eventual exploitation and abuse of that backdoor by unintended parties), and also WhatsApp's ability to deny the existence of such backdoors, now or in future. [0] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-can-access-suspects-facebook-and-whatsapp-messages-in-deal-with-us-q7lrfmchz https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-can-access-suspect... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priti_Patel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priti_Patel