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“New [Government] campaign aims to stop more encrypted apps” – so @BBCNews gets the headline mostly right, emphasis mine. #noplacetohide

2022-01-18 02:14:22+00:00

Hammer, meet nail…

A new government-backed campaign is calling on tech giants to stop rolling out end-to-end-encryption (E2EE).

Messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal already use E2EE, and Meta plans to deploy it in Facebook Messenger, but the No Place to Hide campaign says it makes it harder to detect child abuse.

When messages are sent using E2EE, only the sender and receiver can read them, not law enforcement or the app owners.

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So after years of trying to convince tech giants directly, the hope is that a broad appeal to the public will be the thing that finally persuades Meta and others to either invent a new way around the system that satisfies the authorities, or finish end-to-end once and for all.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/59964656
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