How do we balance safety and privacy? In a speech this week, UK Prime Minister David Cameron suggested that the UK ought to ban any communications applications that can't be intercepted - and said that if his government is re-elected this will be a major part of his legislation. His key question was:
"In our country, do we want to allow a means of communication between people, which even in extremis with a signed warrant from the home secretary personally, that we cannot read?"
Dan York
