Japan has joined the Five Eyes intelligence alliance to ask Facebook for access to
Currently, Facebook encrypts the content of users' messagesFive Eyes Alliance, which includesThe United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, as well as Japan and India, issued a statement that the company shouldchange encryption methods in Messenger and WhatsApp.
Alliance members say they understand in a statementthe importance of protecting users' privacy, but Facebook must strike a balance between privacy and protecting security. Seven countries expect the company to release an encryption bypass that will allow messages to be read in the event of an emergency.