{"id":1857,"date":"2021-06-14T05:36:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T03:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/14\/whatsapp-boss-decries-attacks-on-encryption-as-orwellian\/"},"modified":"2021-06-14T05:36:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T03:36:53","slug":"whatsapp-boss-decries-attacks-on-encryption-as-orwellian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/14\/whatsapp-boss-decries-attacks-on-encryption-as-orwellian\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp boss decries attacks on encryption as Orwellian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Cathcart likens governments\u2019 stance to insisting a 1984 telescreen be installed in every living room<\/p>\n<p>Government attacks on WhatsApp\u2019s end-to-end encryption are akin to demands that an Orwellian telescreen be installed in every living room, the app\u2019s head has said as it launches a major advertising campaign in defence of privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Will Cathcart told the Guardian in an interview that the abstract nature of digital communications can obscure huge violations of personal freedom.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/13\/whatsapp-boss-decries-attacks-on-encryption-as-orwellian\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/105401338e9f1cb11a6e8aa5ab88b847bd1e2d89\/0_109_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=dc2064af93502e8a21809cbb74eec35e\" title=\"WhatsApp boss decries attacks on encryption as Orwellian\" \/>Will Cathcart likens governments\u2019 stance to insisting a 1984 telescreen be installed in every living room<br \/>\nGovernment attacks on WhatsApp\u2019s end-to-end encryption are akin to demands that an Orwellian telescreen be installed in every living room, the app\u2019s head has said as it launches a major advertising campaign in defence of privacy.<br \/>\nWill Cathcart told the Guardian in an interview that the abstract nature of digital communications can obscure huge violations of personal freedom. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Cathcart likens governments\u2019 stance to insisting a 1984 telescreen be installed in every living room Government attacks on WhatsApp\u2019s end-to-end encryption are akin to demands that an Orwellian telescreen be installed in every living room, the app\u2019s head has said as it launches a major advertising campaign in defence of privacy. Will Cathcart told &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/14\/whatsapp-boss-decries-attacks-on-encryption-as-orwellian\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WhatsApp boss decries attacks on encryption as Orwellian<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1858,"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\/1857"}],"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=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}