The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) issued a new report that recommends policymakers enact data privacy protection legislation for point-to-point messaging platforms, such as Telegram, WeChat, and WhatsApp.
In order to better protect the human rights of users, the report recommends that policymakers enact data privacy protection legislation. It calls on Congress to advance data protection legislation that sets rules for data collection, processing, storing, and sharing.