2018-11-29 01:26 |
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today filed a motion with a Federal court requesting documents pertaining to an FBI attempt to force Facebook to hack its own Messenger service be unsealed.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) unsuccessfully tried to order Facebook to alter its Messenger code earlier this year. The request came as part of an FBI case against alleged MS-13 gang members accused of violent crimes. What the government sought at the time was access to encrypted Messenger calls. According to reports from Reuters and the Washington Post, a judge denied the request and a subsequent motion…
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