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Laws to enable security services to see messages before they are encrypted by providers such as WhatsApp are being drawn up in Germany because of concerns over secret communications by Islamist terrorists.

Angela Merkels government believes the same balance of eavesdropping and privacy should exist in the digital age as in democratic societies in the analogue era of letters and phone calls. Mrs Merkel aims to put digital security on the agenda for next months G20 summit she is hosting in Hamburg.

Theresa May has also called for a global approach to regulating digital providers, saying during the election campaign that there should be no safe space for terrorist ideologies.

Germany is known as one of the most protective countries for personal privacy because of

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