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Attorney General Barr Asks Facebook to Halt Encryption Plan

By Alex Heath
· · Source: BuzzFeed News

U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, along with government ministers from the U.K. and Australia, have asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to halt the company’s plan to fully encrypt its messaging services. An open letter to Zuckerberg first obtained by BuzzFeed News asks Facebook to not proceed with the plan without “a means for lawful access to the content of communications to protect our...

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