Facebook and Messenger to automatically encrypt messages
The Home Secretary James Cleverly says he's "incredibly disappointed" by Meta's decision to automatically encrypt all messages
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The Home Secretary James Cleverly says he's "incredibly disappointed" by Meta's decision to automatically encrypt all messages
End-to-end encryption, which prevents content from being seen by anyone outside the chat, forms the backbone of apps like Signal, Telegram, and Meta's own WhatsApp.
UK politicians and police have opposed the move, arguing it will make it harder to spot child abuse.
Messages and calls protected by end-to-end-encryption (E2EE), which has been an option since 2016, can be read only by the sender and recipient.
The NCSC has firmly attributed a long-running campaign of cyber attacks targeting UK political processes to a group run out of Russia’s FSB intelligence agency, known as Star Blizzard.