US Attorney General Bill Barr is scheduled to make some remarks at a Justice Department event Friday focused on how tech companies promoting encryption has hampered government access to information.
That’s according to a New York Times preview of the event, which will come in tandem with a chilling demand from Barr: In a letter from President Trump’s AG to Facebook dated October 4, Barr asks the social networking giant to immediately halt its plan to expand end-to-end encryption across the company’s messaging services like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
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Uh oh: Trump’s attorney general asks Facebook for ‘backdoor’ messaging access originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 17:33:06 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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