Bosses at National Crime Agency condemn Meta's decision to automatically encrypt Facebook and Messenger chats saying it will make it harder to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation

Messages and calls protected by end-to-end-encryption (E2EE), which has been an option since 2016, can be read only by the sender and recipient.

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