Tech Companies May Be Forced To Install Backdoors To Allow Government Spying

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson0 Comments

 

“Last week, British Prime Minister David Cameron incensed the Internet by proposing to ban secure messaging applications, like WhatsApp and Snapchat, unless they install backdoors to allow government spying. Plenty of other services, including Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime, might also run afoul of such a law, the Independent pointed out.

Cameron’s call for mandatory backdoors offended online privacy advocates, but it couldn’t have shocked them. This is the same leader who ignored censorship cries and installed porn filters on the country’s Internet services, with some rather predictable unintended consequences.” *

Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?! & Turner Classic Movies; http://www.twitter.com/BenMank77), Desi Doyen (Green News Report; http://www.twitter.com/greennewsreport) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.

*Read more here from http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/01/19/obama_wants_backdoors_in_encrypted_messaging_to_allow_government_spying.html

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