{"id":5103,"date":"2019-07-31T04:32:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/jul\/30\/five-eyes-backdoor-access-whatsapp-encryption"},"modified":"2019-07-31T04:32:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:32:25","slug":"calls-for-backdoor-access-to-whatsapp-as-five-eyes-nations-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5103","title":{"rendered":"Calls for backdoor access to WhatsApp as Five Eyes nations meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Countries focus on increasingly effective encryption of communications<\/p>\n<p>British, American and other intelligence agencies from English-speaking countries have concluded a two-day meeting in London amid calls for spies and police officers to be given special, backdoor access to WhatsApp and other encrypted communications.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/02\/history-of-5-eyes-explainer\">Five Eyes<\/a>\u201d nations \u2013 the UK, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand \u2013 was hosted by new home secretary, Priti Patel, in an effort to coordinate efforts to combat terrorism and child abuse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/jul\/30\/five-eyes-backdoor-access-whatsapp-encryption\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries focus on increasingly effective encryption of communicationsBritish, American and other intelligence agencies from English-speaking countries have concluded a two-day meeting in London amid calls for spies and police officers to be given spec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,43,244,483,56,4,481,474,58,52,476,47,479,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-canada","category-gchq","category-new-zealand","category-politics","category-priti-patel","category-surveillance","category-technology","category-uk-news","category-uk-security-and-counter-terrorism","category-us-news","category-whatsapp","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}