Some of the major technological giants of the world, Facebook, Google and Whatsapp plan to increase user data coding systems in their services, said on Monday (14) the British newspaper “Guardian”.
the experts from Silicon Valley leading companies working within their own technologies for privacy, while Apple is in a legal battle with the United States Department of Justice.
the FBI wants Apple to design a software that allows disabling safety iPhone a suspected terrorist, and the company refuses to do so, considering that undermine civil liberties.
According to the newspaper, the projects of these companies indicate that sector is willing to publicly support Apple with concrete actions against the US government requirements.
Apple introduced on February 1 nullity appeal to the request for a court to help the FBI to unlock a phone used by one of the December 2015 shooting of authors in the Californian city of San Bernardino, which left 14 dead and 22 wounded.
the company believes that the order has far-reaching consequences and would cause “significant damage to civil liberties, society and national security “.
According to the” Guardian “, in a matter of weeks Whatsapp plans to expand its systems coding so that also your voice messages are encrypted, as well as their groups of messages while Facebook is thought to enhance the security on your messaging system.
Other technology companies that set their minds to adopt similar measures are Snapchat and Google.
So far, the engineers of these companies, as well as Twitter, explored the coded messages of products, despite not having driven them to the market, considering that are difficult to use or have prioritized other projects that consider more affordable to the consumer.
However, according to the “Guardian”, these companies now hope to increase coding, because the senior managers of these technological giants consider privacy tools as a business advantage.
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