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    Tech giants ‘could severely disable UK spooks from stopping online harms’

    by David Lynch Feb 20, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: PA Wire

    Silicon Valley tech giants’ actions could “severely disable” UK spooks from preventing harm caused by online paedophiles and fraudsters, Suella Braverman has suggested.

    The Conservative former home secretary named Facebook owner Meta, and Apple, and their use of technologies such as end-to-end encryption as a threat to attempts to tackle digital crimes.

    She claimed the choice to back these technologies without “safeguards” could “enable and indeed facilitate some of the worst atrocities that our brave men and women began considering changes to investigatory powers laws.

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