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.

…except that such features DO NOT EXIST within WhatsApp and Signal, which therefore presumes that the UK Government can/will compel WhatsApp and Signal to implement such things. We should like to see them try.

More likely the targets are individual phones, to be hacked a-la Pegasus.

[you can open the links in a fresh incognito window if it demands a login]

• https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366596534/WhatsApp-and-Signal-messages-at-risk-of-surveillance-following-EncroChat-ruling-court-hears
• https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366537182/Investigatory-Powers-Tribunal-finds-NCA-EncroChat-hacking-warrants-were-lawful