Apple, Google & others condemn UK proposal to secretly add law enforcement to encrypted chats - 9to5Mac

Apple, Google & others condemn UK proposal to secretly add law enforcement to encrypted chats  9to5Mac

Apple, Google, Microsoft and 44 other organisations and security experts have signed an open letter condemning a proposal to secretly add law enforcement organizations to encrypted chats and calls. The proposal by GCHQ – Britain’s equivalent of the NSA – seeks to provide an encryption workaround that would breach privacy and security in apps like Messages, FaceTime, WhatsApp and Signal … The proposed workaround, aka ‘ghost proposal’ So far, companies like Apple have been able to tell law enforcement that it has no way to provide them with access to Messages chats and FaceTime calls because ...

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