

“They should be on our side, and I’m going to try to win that argument.” “These people have families, have children as well,” she said. She indicated that she hoped to be able to win them over without resorting to legislation. “We need to make sure that organisations like WhatsApp, and there are plenty of others like that, don’t provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other.”

There should be no place for terrorists to hide. Rudd added: “It is completely unacceptable. Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Rudd refused to rule out passing new legislation to tackle encrypted messaging if she did not get what she wanted.īut she stressed it was her desire to persuade internet and social media companies to cooperate voluntarily with the government on this and also the posting of extremist material online.

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