UK’s MI5 security chief warns that encryption is making it too hard to track terrorists
Sep17
The Director General of the UK’s counter-terrorist security service MI5, Andrew Parker, has said that the ever-changing encryption technologies are making it difficult for law enforcement and other agencies to track suspected terrorists and spies. Speaking to the BBC today, Parker said that encrypted communication services are outpacing the laws required to govern access to data, leaving security services in the dark: “Shifts in technology, particularity internet technology, and the use of encryption and so on are creating a situation where law enforcement agencies and security agencies can no longer obtain under proper legal warrant the content of communications between people they…
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