US Attorney General William Barr and senior government officials from the UK and Australia are formally asking Facebook to give up on its plan to encrypt user messages across its platforms
In an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made public Thursday, the officials wrote that while"law abiding citizens have a legitimate expectation that their privacy will be protected," effective encryption can hinder"our law enforcement agencies' ability to stop criminals and abusers in their tracks.
CK Some messaging services, such as Facebook's WhatsApp, utilize end-to-end encryption by default, meaning that only the individual devices an account is on — and not even the company that hosts the message — will have the keys to decrypt a conversation.Barr revived the issue in July, calling tech companies' embrace of end-to-end encryption"dangerous" and"unacceptable.
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