{"id":373889,"date":"2018-08-18T11:48:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T10:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-app-report\/"},"modified":"2018-08-18T11:48:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T10:48:21","slug":"presstv-us-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-app-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-seeks-facebook-help-to-wiretap-app-report\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US seeks Facebook help to wiretap app: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US government is trying to force Facebook 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.<\/strong><\/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 US 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>Facebook and the Department of Justice declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Messenger issue arose in Fresno, California, as part of an investigation of the MS-13&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/18\/571532\/US-government-Facebook-encryption\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government is trying to force Facebook 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. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}