Facebook has been under pressure from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, as they require the tech giant to change its end-to-end encryption policies in order to fight against terrorism and child abuse.
The three countries plan to sign a special data agreement on Thursday.
According to Reuters, Washington has called for more regulation and launched anti-trust investigations against many tech companies, criticizing them over privacy lapses, election-related activity and dominance in online advertising.
Associate Attorney General Sujit Raman said on Wednesday that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received more than 18 million tips of online child sex abuse last year, over 90% of them from Facebook.
‘’Government officials concerned with fighting child abuse would be better served by making sure investigators had more funding and training. They seem to ignore the low-hanging fruit in favor of going after the thing they’ve been going after for the past 25 years,’’ said Susan Landau, a professor of cybersecurity and policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, received a letter from U.S. Attorney General William Barr, UK Secretary of State for the Home Department Priti Patel and Australian Minister of Home Affairs Peter Dutton, in which it was written:
‘’Our understanding is that much of this activity, which is critical to protecting children and fighting terrorism, will no longer be possible if Facebook implements its proposals as planned. Unfortunately, Facebook has not committed to addressing our serious concerns about the impact its proposals could have on protecting our most vulnerable citizens.’’
People generally are opposed to this proposal buy the 3 countries as the global head of WhatsApp, Will Cathcart wrote online that WhatsApp will always oppose government attempts to build backdoors because they would weaken the security of anyone who uses WhatsApp including government themselves.’’
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