US and UK pressure Facebook for backdoor access to WhatsApp messages

US and UK pressure Facebook for backdoor access to WhatsApp messages

5 years ago
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https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/10/04/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.”