Meta, Twitter, Apple, Google urged to up encryption game in post-Roe America
Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, and others today faced renewed pressure to protect the privacy of messaging app users seeking healthcare treatment.
Now that America has entered its post-Roe era, in which more than a dozen states have banned abortion, digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future hastech companies to implement strong on-by-default end-to-end encryption across their messaging services to secure users' communications, and prevent conversations from being shared with police and others.
Crucially, campaigners want to ensure that people's chats discussing procedures outlawed at the state level can't be obtained by the cops and used to build a criminal case against them. "When our messages are protected from interlopers, we can communicate freely, without the fear of being watched," said Caitlin Seeley George, Fight for the Future's campaigns and managing director, in aTech companies are throwing their users to the wolves by allowing company employees, cops, and other third parties to access unprotected messagesand with more rights cutbacks on the way, tech companies are throwing their users to the wolves by allowing company employees, cops, and...
In theory, E2EE should prevent anyone other than the two people involved in the private conversation from accessing its contents. This means that, for example, if the Facebook chats between a Nebraska teen daughter and her mom about an abortion had instead happened on a service like Signal or
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