Police Warn Partnership With Tech Industry 'At Risk' Over End-To-End Encryption
The Record, Monday, April 22nd, 2024
The partnership between law enforcement and the technology industry is 'at risk' due to end-to-end encryption, warned a joint declaration on Sunday from European police chiefs.
Although the company was not named in the statement, it follows social media giant Meta announcing in December that it had begun rolling out the technology as default across 'all personal chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook.'
End-to-end encryption is a way of designing communications so that the encryption is applied and disapplied by the end devices, making it impossible for the service or network provider - or any hackers accessing the network - to read the contents of messages.