Facebook is planning end-to-end encryption on all its messaging services to increase privacy levels.
The tech giant started experimenting with this earlier this year. Soon, end-to-end encryption will be standard for every Facebook message.
But Australian, British and United States governments and law makers aren’t happy about it. They fear it will make it impossible to recover criminal conversations from Facebook’s platforms, thus offering impunity to offenders.
For instance, this was a major concern following the 2017 London terror attacks. Attackers used WhatsApp (Facebook’s end-to-end encrypted platform), and this frustrated police investigations.
But does Facebook’s initiative place the company between a political rock and an ethical hard place?
What is end-to-end encryption?
End-to-end encryption is a method of communicating more securely, compared to non-encrypted communications.
It involves using encryption (via cryptographic keys) that excludes third parties from accessing content shared between communicating users.
When the sender wants to communicate with the receiver, they share a unique algorithmic key to decrypt the message. No one else can access it, not even the service provider.
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