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Last year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was warned that the platform's new privacy proposals could allow child abusers to evade detection, after the chief executive promised that his company would be implementing end-to-end encryption across all of its messaging services.
Facebook services helped law enforcement identify around 94 percent of the 69 million images of children being subjected to sex abuse reported by US technology companies in 2019. However the privacy laws it is considering are about to jeopardise these efforts, writes
Sky News.Seven countries, including the UK, have published a statement warning of the potential dangers to public safety that could stem from the implementation of proposed end-to-end encryption.
Signed by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, along with the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and Japan, it urges tech companies to remain vigilant to "criminality on their platforms".
"We owe it to all of our citizens, especially our children, to ensure their safety by continuing to unmask sexual predators and terrorists operating online," Patel is cited as saying.
Comment: These people are clearly not Trump supporters. But that won't stop the MSM from trying to spin it that way.
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