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Meta is defending its end-to-end encryption in a Nevada federal court.

State Attorney General Aaron Darnell Ford filed last week to stop Meta from offering end-to-end encryption to children as a matter of “extreme urgency,” claiming E2EE keeps police from protecting kids from predators.

This is just one of a slew of lawsuits filed against social media companies lately. Legal expert Riana Pfefferkorn, who discussed the case in Kim Zetter’s Zero Day blog and on Mastodon, calls it a particularly “bonkers assault on encryption.”

We’ve reached out to Meta and Nevada’s AG for more information.

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