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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Josh Taylor

TechScape: Will Meta’s encryption plans be a ‘devastating blow’ to child safety online?

Meta implements end-to-end encryption on Facebook and Messenger.
Meta implements end-to-end encryption on Facebook and Messenger. Photograph: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

There was a rare utterance from an internet regulator last month: praise for Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta.

Australia’s e-safety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, described Meta as “one of the better detection performers” for reporting child sexual abuse material on its services, making around 27m reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) last year. Apple, for comparison, reported just 234.

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