Some of the major technological giants like Facebook, Google and WhatsApp plan to increase their encryption systems data users in their services, as revealed by the British newspaper ‘The Guardian’ today. (See also: The conflict between Apple and the courts continued)
The experts of the leading Silicon Valley companies work in their own privacy technologies while Apple is fighting a legal battle with the Department of Justice United States.
the FBI wants Apple to design a software that allows disabling iPhone security of a suspect in a terrorism case, to which the company refuses to consider that would damage civil liberties .
According to the newspaper, the projects developed by these companies indicate that the industry is willing to publicly support Apple with concrete actions against the demands of the US government.
Apple introduced in February 1 appeal for annulment to the request of a court in that country to assist the FBI to unlock a phone used by one of the authors of the shooting December 2015 in the Californian city of San Bernardino, in which 14 people were killed and 22 were injured.
the company believes that the order has broad implications and inflict “significant civil liberties harm, society and national security”.
According to ‘the Guardian ‘within weeks, WhatsApp plans to expand its coding systems so that also your voice messages will be encrypted and its messages groups , while on the other hand, Facebook plans to strengthen security in your messaging system.
Other technology companies raised similar measures are the popular messaging service Snapchat and Internet search engine Google.
to date, engineers of those companies, which also include the social network Twitter, they have explored products encrypted messages, although they have not launched to find that are difficult to use or have given priority to other projects they consider most suitable for consumer.
However, according to the Guardian, these companies hope now increase encryption, as senior managers of these tech giants perceived privacy tools as an advantage in business.
These new projects began to be worked before it became the public the dispute between Apple and the US government.
GDA / MERCURY CHILE
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