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Default Skype and Snapchat put human rights at risk

Human rights group Amnesty International. has warned that Snapchat and Skype are falling short in protecting users’ privacy and putting “human rights at risk”.

Amnesty evaluated how messaging apps use encryption to protect users’ private communications and gave Skype and Snapchat a rather low score.

Amnesty is making encryption a human rights necessity, due to concerns that activists, opposition politicians and journalists in some countries could be in danger if their communications on popular messaging apps was hacked.

Sherif Elsayed-Ali, head of Amnesty’s technology and human rights team said activists around the world rely on encryption to protect themselves from spying by authorities, and it is unacceptable for technology companies to expose them to danger by failing to adequately respond to the human rights risks.

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