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France makes new push for backdoors into encrypted messaging apps

French Senator Cédric Perrin.
French Senator Cédric Perrin. © Michael Desprez/PhotoPQR/L'Est républicain/MaxPPP
French senators have passed an amendment paving the way for intelligence agencies to access backdoors into messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram. [...]
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