This shift is a clear reversal of Meta’s privacy-first posture, which Mark Zuckerberg announced back in 2019.
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End-to-end encryption is the gold standard to protect data – and now it can be used beyond messaging platforms such as Signal.
Even though WhatsApp has strong privacy and security features, it isn’t impenetrable – as Israel has previously shown.
The perennial tug-of-war between government interests and individual liberties is playing out in the battle over encrypted messaging. Technology tilts the field toward individuals.
Keeping your chats secure is a good idea, but end-to-end encryption is just the beginning of the list of options to consider when picking a messaging app.
Our new report has produced the world’s first estimate of the scale of online child sexual exploitation.
End-to-end encryption provides strong protection for keeping your communications private, but not every messaging app uses it, and even some of the ones that do don’t have it turned on by default.
The EU’s proposed regulations don’t align with existing technology. They’re likely to fail – or to break the internet as we know it.
Do you need a new video conferencing provider?
Facebook is planning to put end-to-end encryption on all its messaging services soon. But governments aren’t happy about it, as it could make it harder to catch criminals.
Scholars dig in to the debate on whether police should be able to defeat or circumvent encryption systems.
The FBI and police officials say they need to decrypt secure communications to fight crime. But they have other options, and modern threats make clear the importance of strong encryption.
Governments’ efforts to weaken communications security undermine and distract from the need to protect the real weak points in our online communications.
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Professor of International Child Protection Research and Director of Data at the Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Cyber Security and Policy, Tufts University
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Professor of Computer Science, Elon University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity and Computer Science, Quinnipiac University
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Lawyer, Curtin University
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PhD Candidate in Cyber Security, De Montfort University
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Senior Project Director at the Tech, Law & Security Program, American University
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Associate Teaching Professor of Cybersecurity, Quinnipiac University
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Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Associate Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Research Professor, Computer Science, Columbia University
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Postdoctoral researcher, School of Computer Science, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Law; Academic Co-Lead, CSAM Deterrence Centre, University of Tasmania