{"id":81809,"date":"2018-08-18T00:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T07:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/government-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-messenger-sources"},"modified":"2018-08-18T00:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T07:02:22","slug":"government-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-messenger-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/government-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-messenger-sources","title":{"rendered":"Government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger \u2014 sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/government-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-messenger-sources.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) \u2014 The U.S. government is trying to force Facebook Inc ( <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/finance\/stocks\/overview?symbol=FB.O\">FB.O<\/a> ) to break the encryption in its popular Messenger app so law enforcement may listen to a suspect\u2019s voice conversations in a criminal probe, three people briefed on the case said, resurrecting the issue of whether companies can be compelled to alter their products to enable surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>The previously unreported case in a federal court in California is proceeding under seal, so no filings are publicly available, but the three people told Reuters that Facebook is contesting the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s demand.<\/p>\n<p>The judge in the Messenger case heard arguments on Tuesday on a government motion to hold Facebook in contempt of court for refusing to carry out the surveillance request, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-facebook-encryption-exclusive\/u-s-government-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-messenger-sources-idUSKBN1L226D\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-facebook-encryption-exclu...SKBN1L226D<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) \u2014 The U.S. government is trying to force Facebook Inc ( FB.O ) to break the encryption in its popular Messenger app so law enforcement may listen to a suspect\u2019s voice conversations in a criminal probe, three people briefed on the case said, resurrecting the issue of whether companies can be compelled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,1490,1493,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-government","category-law-enforcement","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}