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government folks have a few ideas to share with you about cybersecurity I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update as hacking a tax increase governments are getting more involved in cybersecurity and it's not always a good thing on Monday the UK Prime Minister David Cameron said if he's re-elected he'll work to ban encrypted messaging apps like whatsapp snapchat maybe even apples iMessage service his view is that the government needs to be able to tap into chatting services through a back door to monitor possible terrorist communications and the government can't do that when apps use secure encryption well that's my kind of fly with tech companies that are beefing up security you can't create a back door that only lists the good guys in if there's a whole it's going to be exploited by hackers and with hacking attacks on the rise we need enhanced encryption now more than ever President Barack Obama's administration has its own cybersecurity proposals among them the ministration wants private companies to be more open with the government about cyber threats if more companies work with federal agencies then the hope is that it's easier to fight hackers as a team but there are questions regarding privacy such as how much data will companies share with the government to stop cyber crime everyone wants more information to have a stronger a defense against attacks but what private consumer data it needs to be given up to do that moving on to other news Facebook is teaming up with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to put Amber Alerts in your newsfeed when a child in your area has gone missing you'll see a photo of the missing child their name and description as well as a license plate number and the details on the suspected abductor looking ahead this year we're going to start to see some notable advancements in real-time speech translation for different languages Google is following skype and instead of be working on an update to its Translate app it's going to be able to automatically recognize a spoken language and then translate it into text on your screen in your language that's according to a report from the New York Times it goes beyond saying a phrase into your phone and then hearing it read back to you in English last week at CES we saw dozens of drones that can fly but here's one that prefers the sand a team of engineers working with Disney research in Switzerland created the beach but it's designed with a turtle body the beach bot creates large drawings in the sand with a rake dragging behind to create art the robot knows where it is on the sand by scanning poles at the corners of the designated drawing area it's similar to how some robot vacuums know where to cleaning your home that's your tech news update and you can find more details on all these stories at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey