Multiple tech companies like Apple, Facebook, WhatsApp, Google and Snapchat, have reportedly been working on privacy technology to further encrypt user data and information, reports The Guardian. We’ve written to Facebook and Google for comments and will update this if we hear from them. Companies have been working on this before the San Bernardino shooting took place, Guardian says. It adds that WhatsApp plans to encrypt voice calls over the coming weeks, while Facebook’s Messenger is considering upping its security as well, Snapchat is also working on a secure messaging system, and Google on encrypted email. This move comes in the light of the Apple-FBI case going on since last month, where the FBI is asking Apple to create a backdoor into its iOS operating system to gain data on the user of the San Bernardino shooting. Victim relatives ask for data, tech cos rally for data protection Earlier this month, relatives of some of the people killed in the attack filed their own brief, siding with the FBI and arguing that accessing the phone may help answer questions about the attack. The same day, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and other technology companies filed court briefs as a show of support for Apple. Overall over 40 companies and organizations, other that individuals, submitted more than a dozen briefs to the Federal District Court for the District of Central California. They even spoke against the 227 year old All Writs Act, which gives courts power to issue orders that do not…
