Facebook, Google, Whatsapp, Snapchat and Twitter are joining forces to protect the information of its users in its products, advances this Monday, March 14, the newspaper The Guardian.
Motivated the controversial iPhone San Bernardino, US technology like Facebook, Google, Whatsapp, Snapchat and Twitter want to increase the safety of their products.
the British newspaper writes that this increased security on the part of technology companies may antagonize the US authorities at the heart of the controversy regarding the iPhone San Bernardino.
in February, the Justice Department asked to access the iPhone one of the authors of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, so the FBI could investigate the case. Apple refused, finding that could open “a dangerous precedent”.
Now, other technology companies want to protect themselves. The service Whatsapp instant messaging, owned by Facebook, will increase the security of the application so that voice calls are also encrypted. Facebook also is considering encode Messenger tool messages.
According to The Guardian, the sharing service Snapchat momentary messages is developing new cryptosystems of your messages and Google also wants to better protect your e-mail service. Already the Twitter engineers have been developing data encryption systems. After the controversy between Apple and the FBI, this type of systems is seen as a strong privacy tool.
In practice, this is the initial statement of position by the Silicon Valley technology who had shown solidarity with Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Amazon, Microsoft and Twitter have signed an official document which supported the brand of apple in this dispute with the US authorities.
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