Home Secretary Priti Patel, along with her Australian and US counterparts, has written a startling open letter to the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, urging the data mining/advertising company to “not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services”. While the British government and its “Five Eyes” partners (Australia, Canada, the US and New Zealand) have long – and increasingly vociferously – bewailed the increasing use of end-to-end encryption, which problematise their data-mining of digital communications, the letter is the first time such senior government figures have explicitly called for what would amount to backdoors in Facebook and Whatsapp’s encryption.

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