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UK Police Chief falsely claims that end to end encrypted messaging “puts lives at risk”

The Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom (UK) really really don’t want Facebook to bring end to end encryption to Facebook Messenger and Instagram. In fact, a police chief went so far as to say that offering end to end encryption would “’unequivocally put lives at risk.” The words were uttered by Detective Chief Superintendent Kevin Southworth – who head’s the country’s online anti-terrorism efforts.

Law enforcement fears that end to end encryption will make it harder for Facebook’s internal compliance teams to root out terrorist and child exploitative materials on their platforms. Some non peer reviewed estimates even suggest that the efficacy of Facebook’s internal review programs will be reduced by as much as 70% if end to end encryption is implemented. Of course, the authorities would never try to enumerate how many lives would be put at risk if end to end encryption isn’t allowed to be implemented.

Despite what the government claims: End to end encryption isn’t a bad thing

The fact of the matter is that banning end to end encrypted messaging would put more lives at risk. Banning end to end encrypted messaging isn’t even a mathematical possibility. The United Kingdom has previously suggested a not-so-well-named GHOST protocol as a way of adding authorities to end to end encrypted chat groups. While Southworth was quick to clarify that they weren’t asking Facebook to build encryption backdoors – just taking the official stance that the public shouldn’t have end to end encryption tools.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/uk-police-chief-falsely-claims-that-end-to-end-encrypted-messaging-puts-lives-at-risk/

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