Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has responded to the suggestion that messaging apps and social networks should remove end-to-end encryption – implying such a move would be a step backwards for governments looking to monitor extremism online.
The executive tackled the issue on Sunday’s edition of Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4. She said that if Facebook-owned WhatsApp was to ditch encryption, which prevents authorities from seeing the messages users are sending to each other, then people would turn to alternative encrypted platforms; leaving governments with even less information as a result.
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Source: The Drum
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