Can Britain Really Do Much More to Tighten Security?
After last month’s terrorist attack in Manchester, for instance, Mrs. May
and other British lawmakers said they would revisit plans to force tech companies to open their encrypted message services to the country’s intelligence agencies, allowing them to monitor messages sent by people suspected of planning attacks.
For the last decade, he said, the British have promoted a policy of getting Muslim communities to cooperate with security forces, "which is pretty much the opposite of the French approach." Mrs. May is acknowledging
that "the communities are not so good at policing themselves," Mr. Heisbourg said.
"These people have not gone away but gone to a different platform, one much more difficult for intelligence agencies to monitor." Mrs. May
and her predecessor, David Cameron, regularly pushed big technology companies to allow a "back door" for intelligence agencies into encrypted communications.
Mrs. May herself has called for democratic governments to demand greater controls over how services like WhatsApp
and FaceTime could be used by attackers to spread extremist messages online, as well as how extremists could use social media to promote their views to a global digital audience.
British said that You need more grass-roots intelligence, not community intelligence,
British said that It will only be defeated when we turn people’s minds away from this violence,
In recent years, tech companies have repeatedly said they are willing to work with law enforcement to crack down on extremists using their services, but they have added
that weakening encryption could also allow for the illegal collection of personal information by domestic or foreign intelligence services, among others.