Enjoy WhatsApp while you still can.
Britons could see the hugely popular cross-platform app BANNED under strict new laws on social media and online messaging services.
Prime Minister David Cameron is pressing ahead with new legislation that plans to stop people from sending any form of encrypted messages.
A number of popular messaging services – including WhatsApp, iMessage and Snapchat – currently scramble communications between their users.
If the controversial new legislation is passed in the coming weeks all three services could be outlawed in the United Kingdom.
“In our country, do we want to allow a means of communication between people which we cannot read?” said Prime Minister Cameron earlier this year.
"My answer to that question is: 'No, we must not’.” Full story...
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Britons could see the hugely popular cross-platform app BANNED under strict new laws on social media and online messaging services.
Prime Minister David Cameron is pressing ahead with new legislation that plans to stop people from sending any form of encrypted messages.
A number of popular messaging services – including WhatsApp, iMessage and Snapchat – currently scramble communications between their users.
If the controversial new legislation is passed in the coming weeks all three services could be outlawed in the United Kingdom.
“In our country, do we want to allow a means of communication between people which we cannot read?” said Prime Minister Cameron earlier this year.
"My answer to that question is: 'No, we must not’.” Full story...
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