Fb is being leaned on by way of US, UK, Australia to ditch its end-to-end encryption growth plan

Right here we move once more. Western governments are as soon as once more dialing up their assault on end-to-end encryption — calling for both no e2e encryption or backdoored e2e encryption so platforms can also be commanded to serve state brokers with messaging information in “a readable and usable format.” U.S.…
Here we go again. Western governments are once again dialing up their attack on end-to-end encryption — calling for either no e2e encryption or backdoored e2e encryption so platforms can be commanded to serve state agents with messaging data in “a readable and usable format.” U.S.…

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