Facebook’s new privacy pledge may limit law enforcement and intelligence agencies’ access to data by JennaMC_Laugh
On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg debuted his grand vision on privacy and the future of Facebook: a place where you will be able to send messages privately, automatically erase sensitive conversations, store your data outside the reach of authoritarian countries and send and receive payments securely.
Facebook has over the years proactively shared a large amount of data about threats, including terrorism, according to one tech executive and former intelligence officer, and the intelligence community combined that data with other sources and in some occasions acted on those reports. For many years Facebook has provided useful information to national security professionals. Even if Facebook were no longer able to provide content to investigators, its ability to share other information, including open source data, would remain useful, experts argue.
Facebook spokesperson Dayla Browne told Yahoo News the company does not have further information to offer at this time, pointing to Zuckerberg’s comment that “a lot of this work is in the early stages” and that Facebook would over the “next year and beyond” be working on “details and tradeoffs ... related to each of these principles.”
Even if the intelligence community and law enforcement lose access to some content, metadata and data generated by connections between accounts is already very powerful. Law enforcement was often able to map “the hierarchy of a terrorist cell” in its entirety just from metadata, said Jim Harris, a former FBI agent who also worked as an engineer for IBM.
It’s also unclear whether Facebook would eliminate its ability to decrypt users’ messages if served with a law enforcement request. Facebook could maintain access to a master key to decrypt messages.
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