he social media company, Meta, has come under fire as European police chief’s step up pressure against governments and tech companies over the use of end-to-end encryption to secure email and messaging services. Police chiefs from 32 countries, including the UK, said in a declaration published on 21 April that tech companies were rolling out end-to-end encryption in a way which undermines the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate crime. The intervention comes as Parliament is in the final stages of introducing new powers under the Investigatory Powers Act that technology companies say could be used to prevent the deployment of end-to-end encryption without back-door access. The National Crime Agency singled out Meta’s plans to deploy end-to-end encryption on its Facebook and Instagram services, raising fears that it could lead to the loss of millions of reports annually of suspected child abuse. NCA Director Graeme Biggar said that while encryption can be hugel
Hardcopy personnel files of several Europol executives disappeared from the European police service’s headquarters in The Hague sometime before September last year, POLITICO reported based on an internal memo and conversations with involved sources. Europol is currently trying to figure out how these paper files, which were supposed to be kept in a safe in a secure storage room inside the office, got out.