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Facebook's push for end-to-end encryption is good news for user privacy, as well as terrorists and paedophiles

  • Written by Roberto Musotto, Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre Postdoctoral Fellow, Edith Cowan University
Facebook's push for end-to-end encryption is good news for user privacy, as well as terrorists and paedophilesFacebook's initiative places the company in a complicated situation, as increased user privacy, while positive, could come with potential impunity for offenders. SHUTTERSTOCK

Facebook is planning end-to-end encryption on all its messaging services to increase privacy levels.

The tech giant started experimenting with this earlier this year. Soon,...