If all goes according to plan, by the end of 2023, end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger could be the default setting for everyone. The company has been working on introducing the new encryption since 2019.
Since 2019, Meta’s team of engineers, cryptographers, designers, and policy experts has been working to bring more encryption to Messenger and Instagram messages. The goal is to increase the security and trust people have on the platforms by keeping their personal messages private.
Meta has gone to great lengths to answer important policy questions around cryptography, such as how to continue giving people a secure experience.
Starting today, we’re upgrading millions of people’s Messenger conversations to stronger encryption standards as part of the ongoing End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) testing
One meta reported in the current situation.
The plan is for the company to launch a virtual E2EE of individual friends and “family chats” on Messenger by the end of the year.
With this step, viewing the content of chats becomes much more complicated if end-to-end encryption is used, so the conversation on Messenger will be more secure, which repressive states cannot be happy with, because it will be difficult for them to access it. the message.
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