Facebook tells US attorney general it won’t remove encryption from its messaging apps
▻https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004873/facebook-whatsapp-bill-barr-justice-department-instagram-messenger
Law enforcement is ticked off about Facebook’s privacy pivot Facebook executives told Attorney General William Barr that the company would not provide law enforcement with investigative access to its encrypted messaging products ahead of a senate hearing on encryption on Tuesday. In a letter, WhatsApp and Messenger heads Will Cathcart and Stan Chudnovsky, respectively, said that any “backdoor” access into Facebook’s products created for law enforcement could be used by bad actors for (...)
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