Peter Dutton pressures Facebook over encryption roll-out

Peter Dutton, Australia’s minister for home affairs, has joined global political efforts to pressure Facebook to water down its encryption advances across its messaging services.

Facebook is introducing end-to-end encryption across its messaging platforms – which includes Messenger, What’s App, Instagram, and now Threads – which would prevent anyone other than the sender and receiver from accessing the content. Dutton and a host of other politicians, however, claim the move will aid paedophiles, child sex traffickers and terrorists.

Dutton: Messages should not be encrypted 

Facebook has been facing increased pressure in recent years to offer its users more privacy and guarantees around the safety of their data.

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