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WhatsApp Built Backdoor into its Encryption
WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned instant messaging app, features a security backdoor that allows the company to intercept and decrypt private messages sent through the platform, in flagrant contradiction of its previous stance that it employed end-to-end encryption. While WhatsApp uses encryption developed by Open Whisper Systems, the company behind end-to-end encryption…
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UK Snoopers Charter Legal Challenge Successfully Crowdfunded
Mere hours after being launched, a crowdfunding campaign to fund legal action against the UK Government over its newly introduced Investigatory Powers Act – derisively known as the Snoopers Charter for its sweeping scope to spy on every UK citizen without a warrant – has hit its £10,000 target. The…
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Websites Could Boycott UK Over Surveillance Law
A new campaign, protesting the UK’s new Investigatory Powers Act, which gives the government access to 12 months’ worth of internet browsing data for every resident of the country – making it the most invasive mass surveillance program in Western civilisation – is asking websites to “block or restrict” UK…
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