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.” Hard Fork Summit is coming Join us in Amsterdam on October 15-17 Find out more A “means for lawful access to the content” effectively amounts to providing law enforcement with a backdoor intercept, a request Facebook has consistently opposed citing security concerns.

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