Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Call to withhold encryption unless you verify your ID A lawyer has suggested that access to encryption technologies on social media should be denied to those who don’t “verify” their identities. Max Hill QC, who is leading a review of the UK’s terrorism laws, told the London Evening Standard that “A discussion I have had with some of the tech companies is whether it is possible to withhold encryption pending positive identification of the internet user.” He added that he didn’t think this would “involved wholesale infringement on free speech use of the internet”.

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