The Home Secretary lashed out at the social media giant's intention to introduce end-to-end encryption in a bid to combat hacking and misuse by rogue states. End-to-end encryption would mean only the sender and recipient of a message on the Messenger app could read or modify what has been sent in a conversation. End-to-end encryption would mean only the sender and recipient of a message on the Messenger app could read or modify what has been sent in a conversation. 'On balance, I believe working towards implementing end-to-end encryption for all private communications is the right thing to do,' he wrote in 2019. A Facebook spokeswoman said: 'We've long argued that end-to-end encryption is necessary to protect people's most private information.

Source: Daily Mail October 11, 2020 10:18 UTC