{"id":43669,"date":"2021-10-29T14:28:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uk-data-watchdog-calls-for-end-to-end-encryption-across-video-chat-apps-by-default\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:28:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T14:28:07","slug":"uk-data-watchdog-calls-for-end-to-end-encryption-across-video-chat-apps-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uk-data-watchdog-calls-for-end-to-end-encryption-across-video-chat-apps-by-default\/","title":{"rendered":"UK data watchdog calls for end-to-end encryption across video chat apps by default"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s new Information Commissioner has called for video conferencing companies to enable end-to-end encryption on their products \u2013 even as police managers and politicians condemn the technology<\/a> and demand its removal.<\/p>\n

This week the ICO urged tech companies to make end-to-end encryption (E2EE) “available to all users” regardless if they’re “enterprise, consumer, paid or free” in a statement jointly backed by seven countries’ data protection regulators \u2013 even including China.<\/p>\n

“Ease of staying in touch must not come at the expense of people’s data protection and privacy rights,” warned last year’s open letter<\/a>, which was reiterated this week by the ICO.<\/p>\n