• Britain's Home Secretary Amber Rudd speaks at the Conservative party conference at the Manchester Central Convention Complex in Manchester, England, Tuesday. The British government says it will make streaming extremist content an offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Currently it's illegal to download or store material that encourages violent attacks. But Rudd says the law should be toughened to include 'people who repeatedly view terrorist content online.' | PETER BYRNE / PA / VIA AP
    Britain's Home Secretary Amber Rudd speaks at the Conservative party conference at the Manchester Central Convention Complex in Manchester, England, Tuesday. The British government says it will make streaming extremist content an offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Currently it's illegal to download or store material that encourages violent attacks. But Rudd says the law should be toughened to include "people who repeatedly view terrorist content online." | PETER BYRNE / PA / VIA AP

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MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – Britain said WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption communication services allowed pedophiles and organized crime groups to operate beyond the reach of the law and called on the messaging service to move faster to help governments catch offenders.

After four militant attacks in Britain that killed 36 people this year, senior ministers have repeatedly demanded that internet companies do more to suppress extremist content and allow access to encrypted communications.

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