is for its refusal to allow access to conversations of its users; several technology firms prepare services with encryption systems that provide greater protection
The encryption uses the popular instant messenger WhatsApp is also now in the crosshairs of US security officials, the New York Times reported. In an ongoing investigation, surveillance measures ordered by a judge were blocked by encoding WhatsApp, and therefore the Justice Department will discuss how to proceed in this case, the paper cites sources close to the case.
the US government is currently faced already with Apple for digital protection of iPhones. The New York Times could not access more details about the case involving WhatsApp now. Only it is known that there is a terrorist investigation and it is not clear that the government will go to court, as in the case of Apple.
WhatsApp, which was bought by Facebook in 2014, It has one billion users worldwide. Since 2014 the service exchange instant messages using an encryption function that protects all information exchange between users; only the sender and receiver can read the messages. Similar to Apple, the company argues that it can not provide the authorities with information about those conversations, because she has no access.
Some of the major technological giants like Facebook and Google plan to increase their coding systems data of its users in their services, as revealed today the British newspaper the Guardian. Another technology company raised adopt similar measures are the popular messaging service Snapchat.
According to The Guardian, in a matter of weeks, WhatsApp plans to expand its coding systems so that also your voice messages will be encrypted and their messages groups, while Facebook plans to strengthen security in your messaging system.
in the case of the conventional telephone infrastructure to the authorities there is a large arsenal of measures to eavesdrop legal, but in the United States, online services like WhatsApp -for which can also make voice calls are excluded. In the Senate of that country is now working on a law about it.
In December, WhatsApp was blocked for 14 hours in Brazil because the service refused to deliver data in a criminal case. Then, an appeals court changed the suspension by paying a fine. Because it was briefly detained in March also a director of Facebook. The aim of Justice is access to a conversation between two suspected drug traffickers.
In the case of Apple, the company refuses to give the authorities a program to disable the security system iPhone an attacker San Bernardino because Islamist claims that raise coding once will mean less security for all. The CEO of the company, Tim Cook, is willing to go to battle before the Supreme Court of the country. The case has strained relations between the authorities and Silicon Valley, as other companies like Google, Facebook or Microsoft, supported Apple.
In industry, there are great concerns that this public dispute arising at the end in laws with harsh measures for Internet companies, he said the agency DPA a member of the sector in the framework of the fair CeBIT technology, held this week in Hannover.
technological expect to increase coding because senior managers of these tech giants perceived privacy tools as an advantage in business.
these new projects, however, began to take shape before Apple enzarzara with the US government on if the authorities should help to unlock the iphone of a suspected terrorist.
US President Barack Obama warned firms that their inflexible stance could backfire. “When something really serious, the political situation takes a turn, things rush and pass by the Congress of dangerous and thoughtless manner,” said Friday in a speech at the conference South by Southwest (SXSW) in Texas.
“the solution is encryption best with a secure decoding which is available to a as small as possible of people in a few important cases group” proposed.
EFE Agencies and DPA
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