Facebook encryption risks children’s safety, says National Crime Agency
Facebook’s encryption risks children’s safety, says the National Crime Agency. The social media giant’s move to secure messaging from end-to-end - meaning that only the sender and the receiver can view them - could hinder criminal investigations regarding minors by 92 per cent. In response, Meta - the social media platform’s parent company that also owns and operates Instagram and WhatsApp - shared their plans to use Artificial Intelligence to flag inappropriate content. They said they would "proactively detect accounts engaged in malicious patterns of behaviour instead of scanning private mes...