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The Justice Department released a statement on the challenges end-to-end encryption poses to public safety. The joint statement includes the signatures of ministers from the Five Eyes Alliance and the governments of India and Japan.

This statement reiterates the need for action to be taken to combat the most serious illegal content, and specifically references crimes involving the exploitation of children. The statement urges technology companies to include “mechanisms in the design of their encrypted products and services whereby governments, acting with appropriate legal authority, can gain access to data in a readable and usable format…