British Home Secretary Priti Patel said it would be a “grotesque betrayal” for the company to fail to take child safety into account when implementing E2EE. The Verge suggests that similar arguments can be made in the US.
Patel claims that many pedophiles use social media platforms like Facebook to find, harass and sexually harass children. “It is critical that law enforcement have access to the information they need to identify the children in these images and protect them from lowly predators,” Patel writes. End-to-end encryption will make it difficult to access correspondence.
Source: Ferra
