WhatsApp: Rather Be Blocked In UK Than Weaken Security
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Dr Monica Horten, of digital-rights campaigners the Open Rights Group, said: “With over 40 million users of encrypted chat services in the UK, this turns it into a mass-surveillance tool, with potentially damaging consequences for privacy and free-expression rights.”
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