When asked about this issue, Facebook told me that “we’re building strong safety measures that are designed to prevent harm from happening in the first place and give people controls to respond if it does. While an emergency reprieve has addressed this, child advocates claim this is illustrative of the impact encryption will have. children’s charity NSPCC tells me that “10% of child sexual offences on Facebook-owned platforms take place on WhatsApp, but they account for less than 2% of child abuse the company reports to police because they can’t see the content of messages.” We saw the impact this can have with the 58% reduction in child exploitation reports after the EU’s ePrivacy directive.
pedophile David Wilson to justice this year say that he may not have been caught with Facebook expanded encryption in place. Where a messenger is directly linked to a social media site that hosts user profiles, especially where that includes minors, there are serious risks in shielding messaging content, in preventing that content form being monitored. MORE FROM FORBES Why Delayed Google Chrome Update Is A Reason To Switch By null Facebook’s most controversial update in years risks the platform “failing to protect children from avoidable harm,” one of the world’s leading children’s advocacy groups, NSPCC, warned this week, telling me that the evidence they have seen suggests “a significant drop in reports of child abuse” on its sites.
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