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WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears 👉Police could lawfully use bulk surveillance techniques to access messages from encrypted communications platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal following a ruling by the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a court has heard. 👉 Lawyers claimed that a decision by the IPT following an international police operation to harvest bulk encrypted messages from the EncroChat phone network has opened the door to mass surveillance of other encrypted messaging systems. #surveillance #IPT #cdsc #EncroChat #cryptophones ComputerWeekly.com Defence lawyers seek leave to appeal a decision by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that the National Crime Agency lawfully obtained warrants to intercept messages sent over an encrypted phone network