MI5 Director General Andrew Parker is asking technology companies to allow intelligence agencies access to encrypted messages on an “exceptional basis,” the Guardian reports. Parker said it is “increasingly mystifying” that agencies cannot easily access messages of terror suspects and that cyberspace has become “a wild west, unregulated, inaccessible to authorities.” With a “legal warrant” and a “compelling case,” he called on firms to provide access “to stop the most serious forms of harm happening.”
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