Interpol: Strong encryption helps online predators. Build backdoors

Interpol: Strong encryption helps online predators. Build backdoors

Multinational cop agency reportedly set to issue statement


Multinational police agency Interpol is due to say that tech companies deploying strong encryption helps paedophiles – unless they build backdoors for police workers.


Three people "briefed on the matter" told financial newswire Reuters yesterday that the agency would be issuing a statement this week condemning the use of strong encryption because it helps child predators.


The newswire reported that "an Interpol official said a version of [a] resolution introduced by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation would be released without a formal vote by representatives of the roughly 60 countries in attendance" at an Interpol summit held last week.


"Service providers, application developers and device manufacturers are developing and deploying products and services with encryption which effectively conceals sexual exploitation of ch ..

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