Request of the "Five Eyes": "Encrypted messaging is caught between a rock and a hard place"
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The Telegram application is particularly affected by the demand for the “Five Eyes”.
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By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow
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The countries forming the so-called “Five Eyes” alliance pleaded Sunday for tech companies to install access routes, in encrypted applications, to allow the police to access them when needed.
Police officers around the world complain regularly about the difficulties that encryption poses to criminal investigations.
Privacy advocates argue that allowing police to access a user's communications can, for example, endanger pro-democracy activists.
The decryption of Julien Rossi, lecturer at the Catholic University of the West and researcher at the Costech laboratory of the University of Technology of Compiègne.
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