The battle over encryption
May 14, 2021•53 min•Ep. 517
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Episode description
Coming up today… it’s Uber versus cabbies once again and we try to untangle the complex future of end-to-end encryption.
The stories we talked about this week:
An epic row is brewing over Uber’s Soho ‘taxi rank’
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uber-soho-taxi-rank
Police caught one of the web’s most dangerous paedophiles. Then everything went dark
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/whatsapp-encryption-child-abuse
Music by Filip Hnizdo
Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess
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