Encrypted Online Message

• India has joined a UK-led campaign against end-to-end encryption of messages by social media giants such as Facebook, which they say hinder law enforcement by blocking all access to them.
• The UK and India are also backed by the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan in a joint international statement addressed to all tech companies to ensure they do not “blind themselves” to illegal activity on their platforms, including child abuse images.

Highlights

• These countries urge all tech firms to cooperate to find a solution that puts the public’s safety first. They claimed that end-to-end encryption policies like ....