FILE PHOTO: WhatsApp and Facebook messenger icons are seen on an iPhone in Manchester, Britain, March 27, 2017. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo
SAN FRANCISCO: Two civil rights groups asked a judge on Nov 28 to release documents describing a secret US government effort to force Facebook Inc to decrypt voice conversations between users on its Messenger app.
A joint motion by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in US District Court in Fresno, California argued that the public’s right to know the state of the law on encryption outweighs any reason the US Justice Department might have for protecting a criminal probe or law-enforcement method.
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