{"id":12573,"date":"2023-12-08T21:38:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/prosecutors-and-child-sex-trafficking-groups-criticize-encryption-of-facebook-messenger\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T21:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:38:12","slug":"prosecutors-and-child-sex-trafficking-groups-criticize-encryption-of-facebook-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/prosecutors-and-child-sex-trafficking-groups-criticize-encryption-of-facebook-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors and child sex trafficking groups criticize encryption of Facebook Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta submitted nearly 95% of 29m reports of child sexual abuse material in 2022 and encryption will make it harder to detect<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s decision to introduce end-to-end encryption for Facebook messages will hamstring the rescue of child sex trafficking victims and the prosecution of predators, according to child safety organizations and US prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the tech giant announced it had begun rolling out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/dec\/07\/meta-facebook-messenger-end-to-end-encryption\">automatic encryption for direct messages on its Facebook and Messenger<\/a> platforms to more than 1 billion users. Under the changes, Meta will no longer have access to the contents of the messages that users send or receive unless one participant reports a message to the company. As a result, messages will not be subject to content moderation unless reported, which social media companies undertake to detect and report abusive and criminal activity. Encryption hides the contents of a message from anyone but the sender and the intended recipient by converting text and images into unreadable cyphers that are unscrambled on receipt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/dec\/08\/facebook-messenger-encryption-child-sexual-abuse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/adcd9226ea26f8139ca0f17a4504ca49c17092ad\/0_0_6255_3757\/master\/6255.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3902fc68e913849afdc44a7c50b36dbb\" title=\"Prosecutors and child sex trafficking groups criticize encryption of Facebook Messenger\" \/>Meta submitted nearly 95% of 29m reports of child sexual abuse material in 2022 and encryption will make it harder to detect<br \/>\nMeta\u2019s decision to introduce end-to-end encryption for Facebook messages will hamstring the rescue of child sex trafficking victims and the prosecution of predators, according to child safety organizations and US prosecutors.<br \/>\nThis week, the tech giant announced it had begun rolling out automatic encryption for direct messages on its Facebook and Messenger platforms to more than 1 billion users. Under the changes, Meta will no longer have access to the contents of the messages that users send or receive unless one participant reports a message to the company. As a result, messages will not be subject to content moderation unless reported, which social media companies undertake to detect and report abusive and criminal activity. Encryption hides the contents of a message from anyone but the sender and the intended recipient by converting text and images into unreadable cyphers that are unscrambled on receipt. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta submitted nearly 95% of 29m reports of child sexual abuse material in 2022 and encryption will make it harder to detect Meta\u2019s decision to introduce end-to-end encryption for Facebook messages will hamstring the rescue of child sex trafficking victims and the prosecution of predators, according to child safety organizations and US prosecutors. This week, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/prosecutors-and-child-sex-trafficking-groups-criticize-encryption-of-facebook-messenger\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prosecutors and child sex trafficking groups criticize encryption of Facebook Messenger<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}