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Facebook wins court battle over law enforcement access to encrypted phone calls

September 28, 2018

A federal judge in California ruled this month that the government cannot force Facebook to break the encryption on its popular Messenger voice app in a criminal case in which agents wanted to intercept a suspect’s conversations, according to several individuals familiar with the case. From The Washington Post

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