2023-12-14 19:26:03
Meta has just rolled out end-to-end encryption on private conversations on Facebook and Messenger. This change is anything but trivial! because, officially in any case, it makes it possible to make exchanges between members of the network illegible. The British police have just issued an alert on this development, in the name of child protection… Where we understand that reading the conversations of pedophiles on Messenger was an authorized practice. And reading the conversations of pedophiles also means reading the conversations of Mr. and Mrs. Toulemonde.
The question of the confidentiality of data stored by Facebook, now Meta, has long agitated minds. We remember the Cambridge Analytica affair, a company which used personal data collected by the American giant, probably to feed into electoral analyses. It was proven that Facebook was not just a site where people posted their vacation photos: it was also a space for surveillance and manipulation.
By encrypting messaging (Messenger included) end-to-end, Facebook introduces a portcullis into this surveillance system. From now on, it is no longer possible, it seems (but let’s be wary of manipulation!), for police services to suddenly suck up private information in order to monitor it.
Faced with this development, the British National Crime Agency issued an official alert with parents about the impossibility, now, of deciphering pedophile messages circulating on Facebook. We understand the importance of protecting children. At the same time, the admission is now made that the police have never hesitated to consult your private messages.
Those who remember the censorship regularly imposed by Facebook during the COVID crisis, but also the techniques used by the services that we described then, will not be completely surprised.
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