Attorney General William Barr asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week not to proceed with the social media company’s “plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services” without including a means for law enforcement to access the content legally. Earlier Mr. Barr reopened the debate whether U.S. technology companies should be compelled to insert vulnerabilities into their products to assist law enforcement. “Making our virtual world more secure should not come at the expense of making us more vulnerable in the real world,” he said in July. He now urges that tech companies in general “should not...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 06, 2019 19:18 UTC