Message encryption a problem – Rudd
The major technology companies must step up their fight against extremism or face new laws, the home secretary has said.
Amber Rudd said technology companies were not doing enough to beat “the enemy” on the internet.
Encryption tools used by messaging apps had become a “problem”, she added.
Ms Rudd is meeting with representatives from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and others at a counter-terrorism forum in San Francisco.
Tuesday’s summit is the first gathering of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, an organisation set up by the major companies in the wake of recent terror attacks.
In a joint statement, the companies taking part said they were co-operating to “substantially disrupt terrorists’ ability to use the internet in furthering their causes, while also respecting human rights”.
Ms Rudd is expected to tell companies that extremists should not be allowed to upload content at all.
“That’s what we’re really trying to achieve,” she told.
“What [technology companies] have been saying to us is using artificial intelligence, they’re beginning to make progress in that way.”
Privacy rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation has expressed concern about the possibility of heavy-handed blocking of content.
It said such a move would have a significant impact on free speech online.
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