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.

  • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    10 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.

    • @narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
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      210 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.