Mark Zuckerberg is everyone’s favorite punching bag when it comes to beating up on Facebook for all its many perceived privacy violations — often for good reason. Over the years as Facebook has chased scale, the company has also cut corners along the way when it comes to privacy and keeping users’ data secure. However, the founder of the biggest social network in the world has just signaled it’s prepared to stand up to the Trump administration in a fight that has not gotten nearly the attention that it deserves thus far.
After receiving an open letter from world leaders including US Attorney General William Barr demanding that Facebook weaken its encryption protocols to make it easier for governments to get a look at what users are doing across the platform, Facebook’s response came on Monday. That response basically boils down to — absolutely not, we won’t do it.
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Facebook actually does the right thing on privacy for once and won’t give Trump a backdoor originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 10:50:16 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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