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I suppose that internet-audience have paid attention to last week’s remarks by Mr. Zuckerberg on the ubiquitous subject — “Privacy is our new black”.
As usual, a lot has been written, but it’s not about what is needed to say.
In fact, this is a broad set of abstract promises to become even better, than today.
The following details attract our attention:
1) there is an interesting passage in section “Encryption and Safety”:
«Governments often make unlawful demands for data, and while we push back and fight these requests in court, there’s always a risk we’ll lose a case — and if the information isn’t encrypted we’d either have to turn over the data or risk our employees being arrested if we failed to comply. This may seem extreme, but we’ve had a case where one of our employees was actually jailed for not providing access to someone’s private information even though we couldn’t access it since it was encrypted.»
How can this be interpreted?
We are constantly fighting the government, but sometimes we need to give up :-) If they ask very, very actively.
«At the same time, there are real safety concerns to address before we can implement end-to-end encryption across all of our messaging services. Encryption is a powerful tool for privacy…
