Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Session 2: Industry Perspective

Dr. Monika Bickert:

Absolutely, safety on WhatsApp is a priority. In fact, my team is responsible for safety and security, and has on it people who have spent their careers in safety. They did not just get assigned to it in Facebook. These are people who came to Facebook because they cared about safety and security. We cover WhatsApp as well. So, we are focused on ensuring that this service is safe. As we think about encryption on WhatsApp or on other services, part of that is figuring out the ways we can offer superior safety in an encrypted world. Some of that means focus on behaviour, trends, using artificial intelligence. However, absolutely this is an area of focus.

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