The Home Secretary Priti Patel has pledged to amend legislation going through Parliament in an attempt to stop Facebook, Snapchat, and other big social brands from “intentionally blinding” themselves to child abuse and other illegal activities by using encryption.
Writing in The Telegraph, Patel said: “Child sexual abuse is an unimaginably wicked crime. Tackling this online is a global problem, requiring global solutions. We all need to play our part.”
She said there was a danger the big tech firms could use the excuse of end-to-end encryption for messages and sharing content to say they were unaware of what was going on under their noses….