Call for encryption ban pits Rudd against industry and colleagues

A previous plan to ban end-to-end encryption was dropped after widespread opposition, including from David Davis

Amber Rudd's call for "no hiding place for terrorists" on the web echoes and revives David Cameron's 2015 proposal to ban end-to-end encryption on services such as WhatsApp.

That proposal was dropped from the "snooper's charter" legislation because of widespread opposition in the tech industry and from Conservative libertarians, including David Davis, now Brexit secretary and one of the home secretary's cabinet colleagues.