Every six minutes, on average, Facebook gets a request from a U.S. government body looking to get information about gangs, drug trafficking, or other suspected crimes, according to the company.
end-to-end encryption as one way to lower the risk of unwanted surveillance, either by authorities, corporate advertisers, criminal hackers or others. Zuckerberg, in his post, said he wanted to protect dissidents from repressive regimes.
Because Zuckerberg’s 3,200-word statement was short on details, some people who specialize in privacy and cryptography have been trying to parse its language for clues about what he will do. They focused, for example, on Zuckerberg’s phrase about “working towards” implementing end-to-end encryption, which they said seemed to hedge against guaranteeing full privacy protections for users.
Facebook on Friday declined to elaborate on its plans or discuss its relationship with law enforcement beyond Zuckerberg’s post. “By merging Instagram and Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, Facebook is now multiplying their ability to mine the metadata, so they’ll have more information about who people are messaging with,” said Joel Reidenberg, a Fordham University law professor. “That can oftentimes be more valuable information than the content of the messages.
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