NEW: WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It's revealed some more details on how that will work.

— Apps will need to sign an agreement with Meta, then connect to its servers.
— Meta wants people to use the Signal Protocol, but also says other encryption protocols can be used if they can meet WhatsApp's standards
— WhatsApp has been testing with Matrix in recent months, although nothing is agreed yet. Swiss app Threema says it won't become interoperable

https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-interoperability-messaging/ #tech #whatsapp #dma #infosec #news #technology

This new surveillance system can track prison inmates every 30 seconds and monitor their heart rate.

A jail in the US is using 'tamper proof' wearable wristbands to keep track of people. Documents obtained by WIRED show this includes watching their heart rate for potential health issues, seeing which inmates they come into contact with, and monitoring how much time they spend in and out of their cells.

Privacy experts say this is another unneeded level of surveillance that has multiple potential points of failure. Two people I spoke to described it as "horrifying".

Full story here: https://www.wired.com/story/prison-wristband-talitrix-tracking/

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The attack on encryption in Europe is very real. We obtained a leaked document from the EU showing Spanish officials want to ban end-to-end encryption.

Beyond this, the document shows the views of 20 countries on encryption, and how it relates to a controversial proposed law that would allow companies to scan people's chats to hunt for child sexual abuse material.

The majority said they are in favour of some form of scanning of encrypted messages.

The document also reveals that a lot of countries don't appear to know how end-to-end encryption works, with many proposals being technically infeasible.

https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-document-csa-law/

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