Making messaging apps less private: BBC News Review

WhatsApp encrypts messages, so it's nearly impossible for anyone other than the user to see what's being said.
Tech experts say there are sometimes backdoors, but these can be used by criminals too. It's understood the man who killed four people in Westminster last Wednesday used WhatsApp just before the attack. So, now Amber Rudd wants support from other European ministers as she argues intelligence services should have access to that data.
Neil and Catherine look at the language the world's media is using to discuss this story - and show you how you can use it in your everyday English.
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Hello and welcome to News Review the program where we show you how to use the language from latest News stories in your everyday English. Hi, I'm Neil, joining me today is Catherine. Hello, Catherine? "Hello, Neil ?!" What's our story, today? Our story today is about technology and security and we're going to be looking at the question "Should Government read your private app messages. OK, very interesting topic, Let's hear more some from this news bit report from this BBC radio one. So, Neil if at the moment you send a whatapp message to me, Nobody else couldn't read it. Only you and I can read it. Now , The British Government is concerned about this, it believes that criminals and terrorists can use whatapp private, the whatapp system to send private messages to each other and they want to challenge that. Ok,well, you've been looking at this story across the news websites. and you've found three words that are being used to talk about it. and you can use it in everyday English , What are they? Ok, Today's words are "privacy","encryption" and "backdoor". Let's start then with first one "privacy" , What's the headline? Ok, We have on BBC News "WhatsApp's privacy protections questioned after terror attack. So, privacy the right to keep personal information secret. and the first thing to say about this word is that ,well, how do say it? I say it. privacy /ˈprɪv.ə.si/ "so do I, why is that?" because we are British. So, umm ,people from North America in particular would more likely say.... "privacy /ˈprɪv.ə.si/" yeah, Although you do hear people from the U.K. also saying privacy /ˈpraɪ.və.si/ In this modern age of international communication, you will hear both versions privacy/ˈprɪv.ə.si/ , privacy /ˈpraɪ.və.si/. They are both the same. They have same meaning. So, basically, choose the one you feel comfortable with. and go with it. "Yes" And now, this word is used to talk about a very high level, important things like this story but we can also use it in our everyday English. We can. and it means basically , Privacy means the right to keep things private, to keep them to yourself, so, people can't find out what you're doing and we can use it in this level to talk about Government asking ,challenging whatsapp's privacy. or you can use it in your everyday English to say personal privacy, the right to do something without other people knowing about or seeing it. Yeah, We work in an open plan office. We do, and some people really like it. because you can talk to your colleagues and you can throw a paper airplane out to them , you can sneak and steal their coffee or their coffee cups. and some people don't like it. "There's No privacy" no privacy. You can't do anything ,Neil, without me knowing about it. "Exactly" and that's why I like it. Terrible, No privacy in this place. Ok, moving on to our next headline. Yes, so, now we're looking at The Independent we have "WhatsApp encryption: What is it, how does it work and why is the government so worried about it? So, encryption, the action of putting information into a code to keep it secret. yup. It's a great word, actually , and we will break it down a little bit. The middle of the word we have "crypt" yeah, now, crypt is a sort of under ground hidden room often in a church to keep bodies. Yeah, keeping, the idea of crypt is a secret ,private place that people can't generally get to. and that's the key to this word, isn't it? Hidden. hidden, most definitely and you can use crypt , you can use it as an adjective ,the word crypt becomes cryptic. Now as you're being cryptic, you're being quite kind of not very clear about your meaning. There is a meaning but it's hidden. and I find you quite cryptic,Neil, you don't always say what you mean, I had to work out from clues what you were actually talking about.sometimes. I see, I've got a cryptic look. You have, do you wanna ( ) now? I don't know what you mean by that. and we talk about cryptic cross word ,it's kind of puzzle where you have to work out what words complete the puzzle, but the clue is very difficult to work out, you really have to think about it like a puzzle, so cryptic we then get encryption and if you encrypt something , you make it very difficult to understand true meaning of it. and WhatsApp encrypts messages by adding code to them so that only the sender and the receiver can read their messages. And that's something called 'end-to-end encryption' , "end-to-end encryption" which you will see here in lots of articles on this topic. Absolutely yes. Ok,then, We have one more word, "back door" what's the headline? Ok, we're going to Fobes now, their headline is "U.K. Calls Backdoor to WhatsApp After London Attacks" Ok, so , backdoor. secret root into a secure system. BUT. You're confused, aren't you? I'm not as usual , I'm confused. cause I thought a backdoor was a door at the back of a house. It is. yes, absolutely. so, on a lot of houses , not every house , not everyone lives in a house. but you will have a front door at the front of house, it's the main door, everybody uses it. visitors use it. it's visible, it's often facing onto the road. but often there is a backdoor which is a second door that not everybody knows about, not everybody has access to. but that door also leads into your house. so it's a second entry point that is a bit more secretive ,a bit more private and not everybody has access to it. And that's how it's being used here in this figurative way. Yeah, so, the two words back door which is of a way we use it in our house become one word backdoor. and it's about a second entry point. the government is requesting, British government is requesting that WhatsApp makes us a second entry point available, not to everyone, but just to the government. and it's called backdoor. Yeah, as a noun there, often we see this word used as an adjective as well. You can talk about a backdoor deal or something like that. and it's got a sense of..... being a bit of , when it's used as an adjective ,not for, ( ) when we're talking talking about encrypting messages but a backdoor deal is about a way you make money , you do a little bit not very legally. dishonest. slightly dishonest. maybe, not ( ) , sometimes quite dishonest. clearly dishonest ( ). For example, Not that I'm calling you dishonest, Neil. I would never say that. but I did say you. because of the lack of privacy in our office, one Saturday, you went in a studio without telling anyone, and you made a program but it wasn't for the BBC. Ahhhhhh, I deny that completely. although I'm extremely rich now. So, you do some backdoor work, didn't you? yeah. No, we'll say we did.

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