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Comment: WhatsApp and Signal see encryption pressures build as governments look to restore power balance

By Nicholas Wallace ( August 25, 2023, 15:10 GMT | Comment) -- Lawmakers around the world have end-to-end encrypted messaging services in their sights, trying to compel providers such as WhatsApp and Signal to enable decryption to help catch child abusers, terrorists and drug traffickers. Critics decry these efforts as attacks on privacy rights — but really they show governments struggling to re-establish a long-accepted tradeoff between citizens' privacy and security that has in recent years been upended by technological change.Encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp and Signal face increasing scrutiny as lawmakers around the world look for ways to make them crack open their communications in the service of uncovering the likes of pedophiles, terrorists and drug traffickers. ...

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