Campaign against encrypted social media messages
October 23 , 2020
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- India and seven other countries have decided to back a UK-led campaign against the end-to-end encryption of the social media messages.
- The campaign is against the end-to-end encryption of messages by social media giants such as Facebook.
- The United Kingdom and India have been joined by Canada, United States, New Zealand, Japan, and Australia.
- This move marks an expansion of the ‘five eyes’ group of nations which is a global alliance on the intelligence issues, to include Japan and India.
- End-to-end encryption is a system of communication where only the communicating users can read the messages.
- It prevents potential intruders including telecom providers, Internet providers and the provider of communication service.
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