Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?
The idea that moves like this will &quot;keep us safe&quot; is utterly preposterous; there are a multitude of other ways in which terrorists (or the boogeyman <i>de jour</i>) could communicate - are the UK and US governments going to insist on backdooring IRC, Slack and face-to-face conversations? Are they going to outlaw encryption libraries?<p>I truely fear for the future that western governments, in particular the 5 eyes members, are hell-bent on creating. They denounce China and Russia for their human rights records in one breath, and seek to strip us of privacy and personal rights in the next - the hypocrisy is simply staggering.<p>What&#x27;s perhaps even more frightening is that so many people believe that moves like this are to keep us safe, <i>will</i> keep us safe.<p>This can not end well...