Security News > 2019 > August > Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp
2019-08-01 11:51
This article points out that Facebook's planned content moderation scheme will result in an encryption backdoor into WhatsApp: In Facebook's vision, the actual end-to-end encryption client itself such as WhatsApp will include embedded content moderation and blacklist filtering algorithms. These algorithms will be continually updated from a central cloud service, but will run locally on the user's device, scanning each...
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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/facebook_plans_.html