government campaign called no place to hide. the campaign encourages the british public to pressure companies like meta formerly facebook not to bring end to end encryption services to their messaging services like facebook messenger and instagram direct messenger. formerly the ceo of the national cyber security centre, ciaran martin thinks the government s got it wrong on this issue. encryption has been a source of tension between government and the tech industry. end to end encryption is a specific form where, unlike in previous forms of encryption, there is no actual key. so, historically, you could go to a provider of a communication service, whether it s post or high end internet communications, you can serve a warrant and say we need access to this. with end to end encryption, the company can say, there is no way of giving you that access. so privacy campaigners and many in the tech industry will say
internet communications, you can serve a warrant and say we need access to this. with end to end encryption, the company can say there is no way of giving you that access. so privacy campaigners and many in the tech industry will say this is a very good thing, because it means that hackers, hostile foreign governments and so forth, cannot get at these types of communications. meta owns whatsapp, which already uses end to end encryption. it had planned to introduce similar features by default to facebook and instagram s messenger services. however, it s pushed back its encryption plans to 2023 after campaigning by child welfare groups. we now see more grooming offences on instagram than any other platform on the market. so, we ve got a situation where the highest risk platform, instagram, is now proposing to put on a blindfold and, at a stroke, eliminate its its ability to even see what s happening on its site.
the campaign encourages the british public to pressure companies like meta formerly facebook not to bring end to end encryption services to their messaging services like facebook messenger and instagram direct messenger. formerly the ceo of the national cyber security centre, ciaran martin thinks the government s got it wrong on this issue. encryption has been a source of tension between government and the tech industry. end to end encryption is a specific form where, unlike in previous forms of encryption, there is no actual key. so, historically, you could go to a provider of a communication service, whether it s post or high end internet communications, you can serve a warrant and say we need access to this. with end to end encryption, the company can say, there is no way of giving you that access. so privacy campaigners and many in the tech industry will say this is a very good thing, because that means that hackers, hostile foreign governments and so forth, cannot get at t
for farmers as well. 0k, and i m hoping when it s used in the real world, it doesn t mix up the grains like that. i can hardly look! thank you so much, dr lorenzo. thank you, lara. hey, chris here with the week in tech. this was the week with giant yahoo pulled out of china, blaming an increasingly challenging business and legal environment there. meanwhile, epic games has announced that the chinese version of fortnite will also close. facebook said it would stop facial recognition on the social network and will delete1 billion people s face print data. the system was used to tag people in photos but privacy campaigners had criticised it. facebook said the tech needed to be debated in the open. it was also the week that facebook whistle blower frances haugen appeared on stage at web summit in portugal calling for mark zuckerberg to be replaced as chief executive. she was also critical of the country s rebrand to meta. over and over again, facebook chooses expansion and new areas over s
it doesn t mix up the grains like that. i can hardly look! thank you so much, dr lorenzo. thank you, lara. hey, chris here with the week in tech. this was the week with giant yahoo pulled out of china, blaming an increasingly challenging business and legal environment there. meanwhile, epic games has announced that the chinese version of fortnite will also close. facebook said it would stop facial recognition on the social network and will delete1 billion people s face print data. the system was used to tag people in photos but privacy campaigners had criticised it. facebook said the tech needed to be debated in the open. it was also the week that facebook whistle blower frances haugen appeared on stage at web summit in portugal calling for mark zuckerberg to be replaced as chief executive. she was also critical of the country s rebrand to meta. over and over again, facebook chooses expansion and new areas over sticking the landing on what they ve already done.