Facebook, Google and WhatsApp plan to increase encryption of user data

Spurred on by Apple's battles against the FBI, some of tech's biggest names are to expand encryption of user data in their services, the Guardian can reveal

Related: FBI 'could force Apple to hand over private key'

Silicon Valley's leading companies - including Facebook, Google and Snapchat - are working on their own increased privacy technology as Apple fights the US government over encryption, the Guardian has learned.