Today, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, announced it would begin testing standard end-to-end encryption for its popular chat client, Messenger. End-to-end encryption is the process of encrypting messages between two parties so that they cannot be intercepted and read by any outside entity, not even the service provider.
While the ability to encrypt your Messenger apps has been available on the platform since 201
6, if this test passes, end-to-end encryption will become the automatic default for all chats in Meta properties. Now, if you want that security standard in your Messenger chats, you’ll need to enable it manually.
In a statement released via the online newsroom, Meta Product Management Director, Sara Su, outlined the new features of Messenger encryption features that users can expect to see in the coming weeks. These include end-to-end encrypted chats, the ability to undo messages, a browser extension for code verification, and more.
If Meta implements end-to-end encryption in Messenger by default, it will become one of the most widely used chat apps that use that security standard. Other apps that use end-to-end encryption include Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp (also owned by Meta).
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