Home secretary summons Google,Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook for discussion on encrypted messages and extremist propaganda
The home secretary, or Amber Rudd,will tell tech bosses they must attain more to tackle terrorism during a private assembly on Thursday.
The firms, including Google, and Microsoft,Twitter and Facebook, are being hauled before the home secretary days after she criticised some of them over their adoption of encryption techniques that mean users’ messages cannot be accessed. The ride was prompted by the announcement by police that Khalid Masood had used one such app – WhatsApp – prior to carrying out the attack in Westminster that killed four people on Wednesday 22 March.
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Source: theguardian.com