WhatsApp boss decries attacks on encryption as Orwellian

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Will Cathcart likens governments’ stance to insisting a 1984 telescreen be installed in every living room

Government attacks on WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption are akin to demands that an Orwellian telescreen be installed in every living room, the app’s head has said as it launches a major advertising campaign in defence of privacy.

 

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Back door to e2e encryption gives cart blanche access where “conditions are met”. This kind of power to THIS government (or any other for that matter) is the last step in surveillance society

He is correct.

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