Kevin McAleenan

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The Minister of the interior says that if Facebook has a credible plan for its users to protect, then it is time to disclose The Details

UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel and colleagues in the USA and Australia have an open letter to Facebook called on it to reconsider its plans to encrypt all the Messages on its platforms.

The policy threatens "the life and the safety of Our Children ," she said.

you said, it could complicate international efforts to law enforcement faster access to private Messages on Social Media , as agreed between the United Kingdom and the United States.

Facebook said: "people have The Right to have a private online conversation. "

The Head of The Facebook-owned WhatsApp, "end-to-end encryption, the law protects for over a billion people Every Day . "

Facebook said it is consulting "closely with the child safety experts, governments, and technology companies and is dedicated to new teams, and sophisticated technology" to keep the people safe.

The Letter was signed by Mrs Patel, the U.S. attorney General William p. Barr, Acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kevin Mcaleenan , and the Australian minister for home Affairs, Peter Dutton . It Comes from the back of a data access agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom, designed to eliminate the barriers to cross-border surveillance.

It allows the British law enforcement authorities demand of US tech companies in need of data about terrorists, child sexual Abuse and other serious criminals.

It is to be hoped, it will be significantly was studies - accelerated yet, The Process for requesting data from US companies, everything from six months to two years.

under the new agreement, which could be cut down to a matter of weeks or even days.

remains But there is a Problem - news about the services with end-to-end encryption, such as WhatsApp, unreadable.

privacy and security

the Following scandals about the misuse of personal data, the Social Network focused on privacy, and it now offers encryption as an option for the user to the Messenger service.

It also has Instagram plans to introduce to.

"Tech-companies like Facebook have a responsibility to balance privacy with public safety," read The Letter .

He added: "so far, nothing we've seen, Facebook has reassured me that their plans for the end-to-end encryption is not an obstacle to the identification and prosecution of criminals operating on their platforms.

"companies cannot operate with impunity, where life and the safety of Our Children is at stake, and, if Mr. Zuckerberg really has a credible to protect the plan, the Facebook, More Than two billion users, it is time he let us know what it is. "

In the year 2018, Facebook 16 made. 8 million reports of Sexual Exploitation and sexual Abuse the content of the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, The National Crime Agency estimates, led to More Than 2,500 arrests and 3,000 children safe.

head of child online safety at the NSPCC Tony STower, said: "It is an absolute scandal that Facebook are actively working to make the choice of the perpetrator with a possibility to go undetected hide in The Shadows on your platform, the need to seamlessly be able to target, groom, and children miss, completely.

"The historic agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom for access to data will feed radical the time to bring police to the data you need from the tech giant to reduce the perpetrators to justice.

"It should Abuse a hugely important Step Forward in the fight against online child - if the tech giant to carry its part. "

wire-taps

There was some confusion about whether The Cloud could force Act, companies like Facebook offer so-called back doors for law enforcement agencies.

Facebook is ex-technology officer Alex Stamos is trying to clarify.

"This agreement would make it possible to wrote to a British court to issue requirements equivalent to U.S. courts, but not grant them access to everything that an American can't get to the court already," he said.

"orders for wire taps of products such as WhatsApp, some of the data, such as IP addresses, telephone numbers, contact lists, and the avatar photos. It is non-encrypted Messages and Attachments . "

Found , the encrypted apps coming over from The Dark web as a place to host criminals were.

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Source of news: bbc.com