(GIZMODO) The American Civil Liberties Union wants to know how and why, exactly, a joint federal-state task force tracking the MS-13 gang tried to order social giant Facebook to build a backdoor into its Messenger app for surveillance purposes, TechCrunch reported on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, news broke that the Department of Justice attempted to force Facebook to secretly recode parts of its Messenger app to give them the capability to listen in on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls, even seeking a contempt of court order against the company when it refused to do so. Facebook said compliance was impossible due to end-to-end encryption, and a U.S. District Court judge in California ruled against the DOJ. Yet the legal reasoning behind both the DOJ’s attempt to secure a contempt of court order and its rejection have not been publicly released. Read More
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