The Dept. of Justice has published an open letter asking Facebook to alter its plan to fully encrypt Facebook’s messaging services.
how they would achieve the end goal that they seek through federal law or executive authority, and there has been no substantive movement in Congress.
Thursday’s letter has been met with resistance by Silicon Valley, including from the Computer & Communications Industry Association, an advocacy group of tech firms, including Facebook. “Strong encryption is increasingly vital to the privacy and security of individuals, national security and economic prosperity,” Ed Black, CCIA’s president, said in a. “Companies should be encouraged to develop and employ the security standards that the public expects for their devices and online activity. ”
Meanwhile, in recent weeks, a host of technical and legal experts convened by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peacethat there should eventually be some middle ground on the issue and encouraged advocates to continue to find a meaningful solution to the vexing problem. “Cybersecurity advocates should not dismiss out of hand the possibility of some level of increased security risk, just as law enforcement advocates should accept that they may not be able to access all of the data they seek,” they wrote.
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