UK Surveillance Centre Faces Challenges From Stronger Encryption

Criminals will just use stronger encryption, warns expert. The UK government's new internet surveillance centre will become operational this summer, but it could make it harder rather than easier to catch paedophiles and terrorists by encouraging them to use stronger encryption.. . . Criminals will just use stronger encryption, warns expert. The UK government's new internet surveillance centre will become operational this summer, but it could make it harder rather than easier to catch paedophiles and terrorists by encouraging them to use stronger encryption.

The National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC), based at MI5 headquarters, will decrypt seized computer data and intercepted internet and email traffic on behalf of law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies.

The Home Office said that without NTAC, technology developments will "lead to a considerable loss of intelligence from lawfully intercepted communications and evidence from lawfully seized material".

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