Russia is repressing end-to-end encryption calls

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Russia has started blocking WhatsApp and Telegram calls this week, stating that the encryption patterns used by the communication platforms to protect customers calls from interceptions violate the requirements for sharing information between technological companies and the government. The platforms have almost 100 million users each in Russia, Second to Jazeera and Mediascope. The Kremlin has spent years expanding its mechanisms for the censorship and control of the Internet, often under the remains for national security and law enforcement.

A WhatsApp spokesman declared to Wired in a declaration that “WhatsApp is private, encrypted end-to-end and challenges the government attempts to violate people’s right to guarantee communication, which is why Russia is trying to block it from over 100 million Russians”.

Reuters reports that Telegram told RBC RBC in Daily Russia that it takes measures to deal with criminal behavior on its platform, including the implementation of moderators equipped with artificial intelligence tools to monitor public speech and communications on the platform that are not end-to-end encrypted. Telegram said that millions of harmful messages breaks down every day.

Ice agents inadvertently added a random person to a group chat called “Mass text”, exposing sensitive discussions including details on a manhunt for an attempted convict killer who had apparently been marked for deportation. The person who was added to the group chat “is not an official of the police or associated with investigations in any way”, according to 404 media, and “initially thought it was a series of spam messages” after being added to the chat weeks ago.

According to reports, the messages included the working sheet of the Ice field operations for the case, which contains detailed information on the lens, as well as the communications in which the ICE agents seemed to access the data from a DMV and plaque readers. The violation recalls the so -called Signalgate, another recent situation in which the members of the Trump Administration Cabinet of Trump accidentally included the chief editor of the Atlantic in a signal group chat created to plan the United States air attacks against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The head of the Norwegian security police service, Beate Gangås, said this week that Russian hackers targeted a dam in Norway in April and released millions of liters of water during the four hours that had control. The Russian Embassy denied the accusations in the comments Reuters. Gangås accused Russia of having perpetrated hack in a speech on Thursday, second Norwegian average.

The police in England will have more access to facial recognition tools. The ministers announced this week that the police officers unfold 10 facial recognition vans live throughout the country that will be used by seven police forces to help investigations relating to “authors of sexual crimes or desired people for the most serious crimes”, according to the secretary at home Yvette Cooper. The police have increasingly transformed into facial recognition in the United Kingdom in recent years, but the vans will represent further expansion in England.