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Chiara Castro

Global law enforcement want Meta to stop expanding encryption

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Worldwide law enforcements have urged Meta to rectify its decision of making encryption as a default feature across all its platforms, citing online child safety concerns.

The FBI, Interpol and the UK’s National Crime Agency are some of the 15 bodies making up the Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT), which has called the plan "a purposeful design choice that degrades safety systems" against child sex abuses.

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