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Meta added end-to-end encryption for one-on-one chats in 2016. End-to-end encryption wasn’t enabled by default, like in iMessage, WhatsApp, and Signal, but now, Meta is finally ready to deliver on its promise of default end-to-end encryption for Facebook Messenger.It’s not all good news, as the feature might take months to roll out to everyone. But you’ll know when it happens, as Meta will prompt you to set a recovery mode for the encrypted chats. Also, the feature only works for personal messages. Group chats…

Meta introduces end-to-end encryption on Messenger and Facebook, enhancing user privacy. While digital rights activists and the EU are happy with this, law enforcement agencies in the UK are livid Meta, the parent company of…

Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, the company announced Thursday.Such encryption means that no one other than the sender and the recipient—not even Meta—can decipher people’s messages. Encrypted chats, first introduced as an optional feature in Messenger in 2016, will now be the standard for all users going forward, according to Messenger head Loredana Crisan.“This has taken years to deliver because we’ve taken our time to get this right,” Crisan…

Since 2016, the social behemoth now known as Meta has been working to deploy end-to-end encryption in its communication apps. CEO Mark Zuckerberg even promised in 2019 that the data privacy protection would roll out by default across all of the company's chat apps. In practice, though, it was a wildly ambitious goal fraught with technical and political challenges, and Meta has only been able to move toward it in gradual, incremental steps. But this week the company is finally starting its full rollout.“It's been a wild…

Meta announced a slew of new features coming to Facebook Messenger and in case you are not seeing the changes yet, it's probably a staged rollout, so wait for a couple of days. Perhaps the most notable change is the end-to-end encryption by default. From now on, all your private messages are encrypted and only you and your recipient can read those messages. That's a big step in the right direction, as most competing messengers, not just the privacy-oriented ones, are already offering end-to-end encryption. …

Meta is finally adding end-to-end encryption to one-on-one chats and calls in Messenger, ensuring much-expected security to the chat platform.It was over half a decade ago, in 2016, when Meta announced that users could opt into end-to-end encryption, but now it’s going to be available by default, making you and your friend or family member the only people who can view your chats.Loredana Crisen, VP of Messenger, shared a statement with The Verge on the announcement, “This has taken years to deliver because we’ve taken…

Facebook is now rolling out new features to Facebook Messenger, which not only boost overall security, but add a much-requested feature, message editing. That’s not all, though, so let’s dive in, shall we? Meta says that this is the “biggest set of improvements to Messenger since it was first launched in 2011”. That’s a big claim. The headline of this update is definitely a huge boost on the security side of things. Facebook Messenger gets improved security, message editing, and various other improvements End-to-end…

Facebook Messenger is finally rolling out support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default for individual chats and calls, the company announced on Wednesday. In the coming weeks and months, Facebook parent Meta says existing conversations will be protected by E2EE and new chats will also be protected by the technology. The company says that E2EE Messenger chats will offer the same features as previously unencrypted conversations including the ability to unsend messages, set chat themes, and send custom message…

Meta on Wednesday announced that the company is adding end-to-end encryption functionality to personal messages and calls on Messenger and Facebook. The California-based company, which also owns other popular messaging platforms like…

Today, Meta has unveiled what it calls "the biggest set of improvements to Messenger since it was first launched in 2011." First and foremost, end-to-end encryption is now a default for private chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook, meaning your secured communication can't be spied on by others — not even by Meta itself, apparently. Once updated, Messenger will ask users to set up a PIN, in case they need to recover messages on a new device later. The global rollout may take a few months to complete, due to the fact…