Corporate messaging service Apple iMessage could be banned in the UK in the case of adoption of law “Snooper”s Charter (the” Charter Spyware”). A law prohibiting the encryption of messages in mobile applications, led by Prime Minister David Cameron. Under the gun and there are other online services messaging, including WhatsApp, Snapchat and Facebook Messenger.
Called the “bill of investigative powers”, “Snooper”s Charter” will require major technology companies, including Apple and Google, keep record of sent between users messages.
“Really in our country we can afford to have not had the opportunity to read someone’s messages? asks British Prime Minister, alluding to the security of the state and the possibility of terrorist acts. — No, of course not”.
If the bill is passed into law, all communication data will be stored in a single year. In practice, this means that every tweet, every message in Facebook and other services will be available to the police.
“We have always had the opportunity, relying on the authority of the Minister of internal Affairs, to sign the warrant, to intercept a telephone call from a mobile phone or other means of communication,” added Cameron. But technology progresses further and further, and new means of communication leave more safe spaces for communication of terrorists with each other”.
Opponents of the law like to remind you that if it were to be enforced, it would violate the right to respect for private life. According to them, this move will give the government increased powers for the collection and storage of data, and will open the way to outright espionage literally all citizens, they are suspected of committing a crime or not.
