🤯 Have you seen our AI stock pickers’ 2024 results? 84.62%! Grab November’s list now.Pick Stocks with AI

Facebook-owner Meta in spat with Suella Braverman over shift to encrypted messages

Published 20/09/2023, 09:28
© Reuters.  Facebook-owner Meta in spat with Suella Braverman over shift to encrypted messages
META
-

Proactive Investors - Home secretary Suella Braverman and Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc have clashed over the latter’s plans to introduce end-to-end encryption to its messaging services.

Though Meta argues the move would ensure privacy for users, Braverman slated the plans over the potential for crimes such as child abuse to be concealed.

“Meta has failed to provide assurances that they will keep their platforms safe from sickening abusers,” Braverman said on Wednesday.

“They must develop appropriate safeguards to sit alongside their plans for end-to-end encryption."

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta argued encryption, which ensures only the sender and receiver of messages can read them, is already popular in the UK.

“We don't think people want us reading their private messages," Meta said.

“The overwhelming majority of Brits already rely on apps that use encryption to keep them safe from hackers, fraudsters and criminals.”

Meta denied Braverman’s claim that safeguarding had not been ensured, commenting that five years had been spent developing protective measures.

Meta-owned WhatsApp already uses encryption, alongside the likes of Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s iMessage service.

Urging Meta to work more closely with the government ahead of the planned rollout of encryption to its Facebook (NASDAQ:META) and Instagram message services this year, Braverman added there could be “no compromise on child safety”.

Read more on Proactive Investors UK

Disclaimer

Latest comments

Risk Disclosure: Trading in financial instruments and/or cryptocurrencies involves high risks including the risk of losing some, or all, of your investment amount, and may not be suitable for all investors. Prices of cryptocurrencies are extremely volatile and may be affected by external factors such as financial, regulatory or political events. Trading on margin increases the financial risks.
Before deciding to trade in financial instrument or cryptocurrencies you should be fully informed of the risks and costs associated with trading the financial markets, carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite, and seek professional advice where needed.
Fusion Media would like to remind you that the data contained in this website is not necessarily real-time nor accurate. The data and prices on the website are not necessarily provided by any market or exchange, but may be provided by market makers, and so prices may not be accurate and may differ from the actual price at any given market, meaning prices are indicative and not appropriate for trading purposes. Fusion Media and any provider of the data contained in this website will not accept liability for any loss or damage as a result of your trading, or your reliance on the information contained within this website.
It is prohibited to use, store, reproduce, display, modify, transmit or distribute the data contained in this website without the explicit prior written permission of Fusion Media and/or the data provider. All intellectual property rights are reserved by the providers and/or the exchange providing the data contained in this website.
Fusion Media may be compensated by the advertisers that appear on the website, based on your interaction with the advertisements or advertisers.
© 2007-2024 - Fusion Media Limited. All Rights Reserved.