UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd will be meeting with executives from WhatsApp, Facebook and other tech companies on Thursday as she continues to scrutinize encrypted text messaging.
She called for this meeting in the wake of last week's terror attack in London in which five dead—including the attacker.
Investigators say before Khalid Masood ploughed into people with a rental car, he sent an encrypted text on WhatsApp.
Encrypted texts digitally scrabble the message making it tough for investigators to later recover.
Privacy advocates say encrypted apps provide the public a secure messaging platform, Secretary Rudd told LBC Radio they can greatly hamper terror investigations.
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