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Tech Giants Pledge Fight Against Online Child Exploitation

Commitments come as encryption battle heats up between companies, law enforcement



U.S. Attorney General William Barr appeared to soften his tone on encryption on Thursday.
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By Robert McMillan and Sadie Gurman
March 5, 2020 5:30 pm ET


Representatives from law enforcement and the technology industry pledged to step up their fight against child sexual abuse on the internet, but remained at odds over government concerns about misuses of the encryption technology deployed by some companies.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday said six major technology companies had agreed to a set of voluntary principles that would guide their approach to fighting online sexual exploitation of children.

The technology companies have agreed to a series of high-level principles that will govern the way they police online content—ideas such as focusing their efforts on areas that have been difficult to monitor, such as live streaming, and taking into account solutions proposed by victims. Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp., Snap Inc. and Twitter Inc., as well as the online gaming hub Roblox Corp., have been developing these principals since July, the Justice Department said.

But Mr. Barr and some of the U.S.’s closest international intelligence-sharing partners—a group known as the Five Eyes—remain concerned that encryption technology, particularly Facebook’s plans to add end-to-end messaging encryption, could leave them in the dark. Some members of that group last year already voiced their concerns about the spreading private-sector use of such technology.

“Encryption remains the elephant in the room,” James Brokenshire, a minister with the U.K.’s Home Office, said Thursday in Washington. “Last year Facebook identified around 12 million incidents of child sexual exploitation abuse on Messenger—something that I absolutely commend them for doing—yet plans to encrypt this service would leave you blind to the same crimes.”

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