{"id":9695,"date":"2023-04-20T12:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T10:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/crime-agencies-condemn-facebook-and-instagram-encryption-plans\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T12:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T10:37:24","slug":"crime-agencies-condemn-facebook-and-instagram-encryption-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/crime-agencies-condemn-facebook-and-instagram-encryption-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime agencies condemn Facebook and Instagram encryption plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global alliance including NCA and FBI says Meta\u2019s decision to encrypt direct messages could harm children<\/p>\n<p>An alliance of the world\u2019s most powerful law enforcement agencies including the FBI, Interpol and Britain\u2019s National Crime Agency (NCA) have condemned Meta\u2019s plans to encrypt direct messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram, saying that doing so will weaken the ability to keep child users safe.<\/p>\n<p>The Virtual Global Taskforce, made up of 15 agencies, is chaired by the NCA and also includes Europol and the Australian federal police among its membership. The VGT has spoken out, it says, owing to the \u201cimpending design choices\u201d by Meta, which it says could cause serious harm.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/20\/crime-agencies-condemn-facebook-instagram-encryption-plans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f3e85271bba6763e4be60810b4a0b7641817be8c\/0_1_3143_1886\/master\/3143.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=10eb487651d9ea53fbcf6feccb4e53aa\" title=\"Crime agencies condemn Facebook and Instagram encryption plans\" \/>Global alliance including NCA and FBI says Meta\u2019s decision to encrypt direct messages could harm children<br \/>\nAn alliance of the world\u2019s most powerful law enforcement agencies including the FBI, Interpol and Britain\u2019s National Crime Agency (NCA) have condemned Meta\u2019s plans to encrypt direct messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram, saying that doing so will weaken the ability to keep child users safe.<br \/>\nThe Virtual Global Taskforce, made up of 15 agencies, is chaired by the NCA and also includes Europol and the Australian federal police among its membership. The VGT has spoken out, it says, owing to the \u201cimpending design choices\u201d by Meta, which it says could cause serious harm. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global alliance including NCA and FBI says Meta\u2019s decision to encrypt direct messages could harm children An alliance of the world\u2019s most powerful law enforcement agencies including the FBI, Interpol and Britain\u2019s National Crime Agency (NCA) have condemned Meta\u2019s plans to encrypt direct messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram, saying that doing so will weaken &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/crime-agencies-condemn-facebook-and-instagram-encryption-plans\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crime agencies condemn Facebook and Instagram encryption plans<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9696,"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\/9695"}],"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=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}