The home secretary has been building an international alliance to take on Facebook over its plans to introduce default end-to-end encryption for its messaging apps.
Suella Braverman has warned Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta, Facebook’s parent company, that “there will be no let-up” amid fears about the technology’s use by paedophiles and other criminals.
End-to-end encryption stops anyone but the sender and recipient of a message seeing it, meaning the companies cannot police the content, making it an ideal tool for criminals. Meta will introduce it on Facebook Messenger and Instagram Direct chats this year.
• Encryption risks mistrust, injustice and dispute
Braverman spoke last week to Alejandro Mayorkas, US homeland security secretary, to enlist his support for the campaign, which has the backing
