When U.S. Attorney General William Barr urged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week to hold off on a plan to bolster encryption of its messaging services, the social networking giant fought back, saying it strongly opposes creating a loophole that would allow government access to users’ communications.
Elsewhere in the tech industry, the silence was striking. Neither Google nor Apple, which rely on encryption for their own products and services, said a word publicly in defense of Facebook’s stance.
