Minister criticizes Meta for rolling out end to end encryption for Facebook messages

government minister has attacked Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg for the "extraordinary moral choice" to roll out encryption in Facebook messages.

Meta was allowing child abusers to "operate with impunity", Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said.


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Mr Tugendhat said: "Faced with an epidemic of child sexual exploitation abuse, Meta are choosing to ignore it and in doing so, they are allowing predators to operate with impunity.

"That is an extraordinary moral choice. It is an extraordinary decision. And I think we …

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