A nonprofit association that promotes social responsibility among corporations has concluded in a new report that Meta’s planned expansion of strong encryption to its Messenger and Instagram services will do more good than harm for human rights, giving the company more ammunition as it fights efforts in the United Kingdom and other countries to carve out exceptions to make police work easier. Business for Social Responsibility, whose work on the subject was paid for by Facebook parent Meta but whose reputation is for independence in its published reports, recommended that the company continue to promote end-to-end encryption, which prevents anyone without direct access to the devices of the sender or the receiver from viewing messages.
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