{"id":1044,"date":"2021-11-22T00:02:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T23:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/meta-delays-encrypted-messages-on-facebook-and-instagram-to-2023-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T00:02:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T23:02:38","slug":"meta-delays-encrypted-messages-on-facebook-and-instagram-to-2023-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/meta-delays-encrypted-messages-on-facebook-and-instagram-to-2023-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023 &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Move comes as child safety campaigners express concern plans could shield abusers from detection<br \/>Last modified on Sun 21 Nov 2021 18.27 GMT<br \/>The owner of Facebook and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/instagram\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Instagram<\/a> is delaying plans to encrypt users\u2019 messages until 2023 amid warnings from child safety campaigners that its proposals would shield abusers from detection.<br \/>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s social media empire has been under pressure to abandon its encryption plans, which the UK home secretary, Priti Patel, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/apr\/19\/priti-patel-says-tech-companies-have-moral-duty-to-safeguard-children\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">described as \u201csimply not acceptable\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/children\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Children<\/a> (NSPCC) has said private messaging is the \u201cfrontline of child sexual abuse online\u201d because it prevents law enforcement, and tech platforms, from seeing messages by ensuring that only the sender and recipient can view their content \u2013 a process known as end-to-end encryption.<br \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/30\/facebook-hearing-testimony-instagram-impact\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">head of safety<\/a> at Facebook and Instagram\u2019s parent company, Meta, announced that the encryption process would take place in 2023. The company had previously said the change would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2021\/04\/03\/facebook-message-encryption-wont-happen-2022\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">happen in 2022<\/a> at the earliest.<br \/>\u201cWe\u2019re taking our time to get this right and we don\u2019t plan to finish the global rollout of end-to-end encryption by default across all our messaging services until sometime in 2023,\u201d Antigone Davis wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2021\/11\/20\/people-shouldnt-have-choose-privacy-safety-says-facebook-safety\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Sunday Telegraph<\/a>. \u201cAs a company that connects billions of people around the world and has built industry-leading technology, we\u2019re determined to protect people\u2019s private communications and keep people safe online.\u201d<br \/>Meta already uses end-to-end encryption on its WhatsApp messaging service and had been planning to extend that to its Messenger and Instagram apps in 2022. It has already encrypted voice and video calls on Messenger. Announcing the privacy drive in 2019, Zuckerberg, said: \u201cPeople expect their private communications to be secure and to only be seen by the people they\u2019ve sent them to \u2013 not hackers, criminals, over-reaching governments or even the people operating the services they\u2019re using.\u201d<br \/>Meta\u2019s apps are used by 2.8 billion people every day. The tech industry made more than 21m referrals of child sexual abuse identified on its platforms globally to the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2020. More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/08\/facebook-encryption-could-prevent-detection-of-child-abuse-nca-says\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">20m of those reports<\/a> were from Facebook.<br \/>Davis said Meta would be able to detect abuse under its encryptions plans by using non-encrypted data, account information and reports from users. A similar approach has already enabled WhatsApp to make reports to child safety authorities. \u201cOur recent review of some historic cases showed that we would still have been able to provide critical information to the authorities, even if those services had been end-to-end encrypted,\u201d she said.<br \/>Patel has been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/19\/priti-patel-v-facebook-is-the-latest-in-a-30-year-fight-over-encryption\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">vocal opponent of Meta\u2019s plans<\/a>. \u201cWe cannot allow a situation where law enforcement\u2019s ability to tackle abhorrent criminal acts and protect victims is severely hampered,\u201d she said in April.<br \/>The issue is also a concern for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/nov\/19\/paul-dacre-pulls-out-of-running-next-ofcom-chair\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Ofcom, the communications regulator<\/a> tasked with enforcing the online safety bill, which will become law around 2023 and imposes a duty of care on tech companies to protect children from harmful content and prevent abuse from occurring on their platforms. Ofcom\u2019s chief executive, Melanie Dawes, told the Times on Saturday that social media companies should ban adults from directly messaging children or face criminal sanctions.<br \/>The NSPCC\u2019s head of child safety online policy, Andy Burrows, welcomed Meta\u2019s move. \u201cFacebook is right not to proceed with end-to-end encryption until it has a proper plan to prevent child abuse going undetected on its platforms,\u201d he said.<br \/>\u201cBut they should only go ahead with these measures when they can demonstrate they have the technology in place that will ensure children will be at no greater risk of abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/21\/meta-delays-encrypted-messages-on-facebook-and-instagram-to-2023\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes as child safety campaigners express concern plans could shield abusers from detectionLast modified on Sun 21 Nov 2021 18.27 GMTThe owner of Facebook and Instagram is delaying plans to encrypt users\u2019 messages until 2023 amid warnings from child safety campaigners that its proposals would shield abusers from detection.Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s social media empire has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}