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“War upon end-to-end encryption”: EU wants Big Tech to scan private messages

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) A European Commission proposal could force tech companies to scan private messages for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and evidence of grooming, even when those messages are supposed to be protected by end-to-end encryption. Online services that receive “detection orders” under the pending European Union legislation would have […]

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Researcher refuses Telegram’s bounty award, discloses auto-delete bug

Enlarge (credit: Joshua Sortino ) Telegram patched another image self-destruction bug in its app earlier this year. This flaw was a different issue from the one reported in 2019 . But the researcher who reported the bug isn’t pleased with Telegram’s months-long turnaround time—and an offered $1, 159 (€1, 000) bounty award in exchange for […]

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WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all

Enlarge / The security of Facebook’s popular messaging app leaves several rather important devils in its details. (credit: WhatsApp) Yesterday, independent newsroom ProPublica published a detailed piece examining the popular WhatsApp messaging platform’s privacy claims. The service famously offers “end-to-end encryption,” which most users interpret as meaning that Facebook, WhatsApp’s owner since 2014, can neither read […]

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Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google

Enlarge / Technical preview of Zoom’s end-to-end encryption, made available months after Focus was caught lying to users about how it encrypts video calls. (credit: Zoom ) Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims that it lied about offering end-to-end encryption and gave user data to Facebook and Google without the consent […]