Police could lawfully use bulk surveillance techniques to access messages from encrypted communications platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal, following a ruling by the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a court has heard.

  • aodhsishaj
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    8 months ago

    Likely as not, person charged with crime is in custody. Police force person to unlock phone, then police install malware and wait for comms to come in.

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      8 months ago

      You’d have to be a real idiot to keep using the same phone after the police arrested you and forced you to unlock it, especially for doing crimes.

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        8 months ago

        This. Even I would be too paranoid to keep using a phone (or other device for that matter) that the police confiscated before.

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        8 months ago

        You’re in custody, your friends don’t know you’re locked up. Who’s the idiot?