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A comment on Correcting the Record on Meta’s Involvement in Nebraska Case. Parent comment

Re:Correcting the Record on Meta’s Involvement in Nebraska Case by ta20211004_1 on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @11:17AM (#32413397)
Messenger already has opt-in end to end encryption and it's the default on WhatsApp.
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Re:Correcting the Record on Meta’s Involvement in Nebraska Case by kelseyfrog on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @11:19AM (#32413426)
Thank you for the info. I'm not a messenger user myself. Make it opt-out then :)
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Re:Correcting the Record on Meta’s Involvement in Nebraska Case by ahahahahah on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:42PM (#32418814)
They tried, but governments and organizations like NCMEC (and many other people) got up in arms about how it would protect child abusers (which is not incorrect). AIUI, they've been working on solutions that would alleviate some of those concerns before switching to enable e2ee by default.
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