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Encrypted messaging puts children at risk, commissioner warns – BBC News
Encryption could make it harder to police online grooming, England’s children’s commissioner warns.
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Encryption of online messages could make it harder to police child abuse and grooming online, the children’s commissioner for England has warned.
End-to-end encryption is a privacy feature that makes it impossible for anyone except the sender and recipient to read messages sent online.
Commissioner Anne Longfield said it also prevented police from gathering evidence to…
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