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Friday, 4 October 2019

US and UK pressure Facebook for backdoor access to WhatsApp messages


The tug of war between privacy and security has come to the fore again. This time, the US, the UK, and Australia are making a case against end-to-end encryption (E2EE), calling on Facebook to delay its plans to implement the privacy feature across its messaging apps until “there is no reduction to user safety and without including a means for lawful access to the content of communications to protect our citizens.” A “means for lawful access to the content” effectively amounts to providing law enforcement with a backdoor intercept, a request Facebook has consistently opposed citing security concerns. The development, first…

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