Minister Tom Tugendhat criticises Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook's extension of message encryption.
A government minister has attacked Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg for the "extraordinary moral choice" to roll out encryption in Facebook messages.End-to-end encryption stops anyone but the sender and recipient reading the message.deployed the techThe government has long been critical of those plans and of other platforms' resistance to weakening the privacy of end-to-end-encrypted messaging.
"That is an extraordinary moral choice. It is an extraordinary decision. And I think we should remember who it is who is making it." The campaign, which would run in print, online and broadcast, would "encourage tech firms to take responsibility and to do the right thing", Mr Tugendhat said.Image source,Meta argues the majority of British people already rely on apps that use encryption to keep them safe from hackers, fraudsters and criminals.
The Online Safety Bill, currently going through Parliament, contains powers that could enable communication regulator Ofcom to direct platforms to use accredited technology to scan the contents of messages.
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