![]() ![]() Earlier this year, Facebook’s head of global policy management was asked whether reported cases of child abuse might “disappear” with encryption and said “I would expect the numbers to go down. ![]() But internally the company doesn't seem so sure. a to protect children from avoidable harm.”įacebook tells me that Messenger encryption will not reduce its ability to flag child abuse on its platform. But funnily enough, I don't trust Facebook’s assurances that its technology can manage this-neither does leading child advocacy group NSPCC, which warns the evidence shows encryption will lead to “a significant drop in reports of child abuse. Facebook tells me it has technology to prevent this. If my kids are using social media, I don't want a stranger to be able to trawl the site, find their profiles and secretly message with them. It is part of a social media platform that collects vast amounts of observational data on its users as they use the platform it is also used by children and enables users to search for people and then initiate contact with them-you simply cannot do that on WhatsApp or Signal. I would ordinarily agree-but Facebook Messenger is different. This will no doubt increase confidence in a platform which has been chipped away at over recent years.” “Messenger has made the correct decision to highlight the importance of end-to-end encryption by making it default on all communication. “Digital eavesdropping is dangerous,” says ESET’s Jake Moore. Privacy Labels Apple / respected security professionals are adamant that end-to-end encryption should be ubiquitous.
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