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Patel: Facebook encryption threatens “safety of our children”
In an open letter, Priti Patel has asked Facebook to reconsider it addition of end-to-end encryption to its Messenger platform. Whatsapp – which is owned by Facebook – already encrypts all messages. A New York Times investigation published last week found that nearly two-thirds of reports of child sexual imagery came from Facebook Messenger and that Facebook as a whole accounted for 90 per cent of reports.
UK wildlife in steep decline
With 133 species already extinct and a further 15 per cent under threat of extinction, …read more
Source:: New Statesman
