Not the person you were responding to, but IMO it’s the defense attorneys / legal department working to ensure that the legal outcome is as beneficial to the corporations as possible, even if they "“lose”. In this case the fine is a cost of doing business, not nearly enough to actually discourage malfeasance and the legal/ PR pivot to blaming encryption rather than their algorithms is something they hope will tee them up to be able to do even more massive surveillance in the near future.
Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 month agoThe victims of child exploitation? Or the lawyers representing them? Or…?
obre@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
They just established legal precident of e2ee as “harmful to minors”