The head of the British intelligence MI-5 Ken McCallum reproached the social network in the fact that its decision to introduce through encryption will help terrorists. In this opinion he shared in an interview with the newspaper The Times.
McCallum remembered the words of the head of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg that the authorities’ access to correspondence in the social network is akin to “establishing a video surveillance cameras in the living rooms of its citizens.” “But we work with that one by a million cases, when it is not just a living room, and the terrorist living room and can assemble a bomb,” the head of MI-5 said.
According to him, through encryption, in fact, completely deprives the intelligence opportunities to test their guesses and only assists terrorists in their evil intents. “You actually give terrorists or people who organize sexual violence against children on the Internet, one of the worst people in our society, free space, where no one recognizes what they do,” McCallum stressed.
For the first time on plans to enter end-to-end message encryption Facebook reported a few years ago. In early May, the company reported that such a function will appear in Messenger and Instagram Direct not earlier than 2022.