If they don't do E2E, users will abandon Facebook for platforms that do support it (and already are). And they aren't doing this to commit crimes, but to prevent advertisements from targeting every conversation they've ever had.
Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption
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#12Sometimes I can understand the willingness to reduce the privacy of self and others in order to ensure that the law is able to prosecute those involved in heinous crimes. Our current political environment though involved a president openly calling on foreign governments to investigate his political opponents. What is to stop them from going after the private communications of those same opponents in the name of targeting "Corruption".
Encrypt it, end to end, the government does not need to be able access all private communications of private citizens. There are other means of investigating potential crimes.
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#13> to delay plans for end-to-end encryption across its messaging services until it can guarantee the added privacy does not reduce public safety. Eat a bag of dicks, Barr.
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#14I don't think this often, but, in this case, Facebook is doing the right thing both ethically and practically.
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#15If they don't do E2E, users will abandon Facebook for platforms that do support it (and already are). And they aren't doing this to commit crimes, but to prevent advertisements from targeting every conversation they've ever had.
I wonder how many WhatsApp users are aware that their messages are encrypted end-to-end.
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#16I hate these requests for government back doors into tech communication software in the name of "the children". Let the parents worry about and protect their own children. Let the government mind its own business and stay out of ours.
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#17If they don't do E2E, users will abandon Facebook for platforms that do support it (and already are). And they aren't doing this to commit crimes, but to prevent advertisements from targeting every conversation they've ever had.
I think if more people understood that it could reduce creepy ad targeting they would be more ready to move.
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#18Question for those more knowledgeable than I in this space: a huge value prop for iMessage is E2E encryption, correct? Why hasn't that gotten similar response from the AG? (OR has it already, and I may have missed it?)
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#19If they don't do E2E, users will abandon Facebook for platforms that do support it (and already are). And they aren't doing this to commit crimes, but to prevent advertisements from targeting every conversation they've ever had.
Honest question: We all know FB won't give up their targeting data, but if it's done locally on-device and we have access to see & modify it, would you support it as a better business model?
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#20Sometimes I think that things like this is a problem related to age. Older people (often those is charge) is not any where near as tech-savvy as younger people. They just don’t understand. Ignorance.
In time it will all be alright...