The so-called ghost proposal would allow investigators to covertly join group chats and calls.
By Taylor Telford Taylor Telford Reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow May 30 at 11:42 AM Some of the biggest names in tech — Google, Apple, Microsoft and WhatsApp, among them — have joined human rights groups and security researchers in condemning a British intelligence proposal that would allow law enforcement to spy on encrypted messages.
But the 47 companies and groups behind the letter contend the plan would “create digital security risks by undermining authentication systems, by introducing potential unintentional vulnerabilities and by creating new risks of abuse or misuse of system.” “If users cannot trust that they know who is on the other end of their communications, it will not matter that their conversations are protected by strong encryption while in transit,” the authors wrote in a blog post accompanying the letter.
Apple, which signed the letter, made headlines in 2015 for refusing to give the FBI access to the iPhone of Syed Farook after he and his wife carried out a terrorist attack that left 14 people dead and nearly two dozen injured in San Bernardino, Calif.
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