Security News > 2020 > April > How Did Facebook Beat a Federal Wiretap Demand?
2020-04-29 17:29
Facebook Inc. in 2018 beat back federal prosecutors seeking to wiretap its encrypted Messenger app.
Now the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking to find out how.
Lawyers for the ACLU and the Washington Post on Tuesday asked a San Francisco-based federal court of appeals to unseal the judge's decision, arguing the public has a right to know how the law is being applied, particularly in the area of privacy.
The Facebook case stems from a federal investigation of members of the violent MS-13 criminal gang.
Prosecutors tried to hold Facebook in contempt after the company refused to help investigators wiretap its Messenger app, but the judge ruled against them.
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