Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023
by Dan Milmo Global technology editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#5S5VE)
Move comes as child safety campaigners express concern plans could shield abusers from detection
The owner of Facebook and Instagram is delaying plans to encrypt users' messages until 2023 amid warnings from child safety campaigners that its proposals would shield abusers from detection.
Mark Zuckerberg's social media empire has been under pressure to abandon its encryption plans, which the UK home secretary, Priti Patel, has described as simply not acceptable".
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