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They announced their end-to-end encryption on April 5th, via a post, and via a notification on every WhatsApp user’s chat. Back in April, Facebook brought end-to-end encryption to WhatsApp, another IM service under their umbrella. This is not the first time Facebook is doing something of the sort. This information can then be used in and for advertising, and no one can discount - it could be used by the government for surveillance, when needed. This can be information like your booking a vacation, checking your bank account, placing an order for food or anything else for that matter. Who are these prying eyes? These prying eyes are the more than 11,000 chatbots that reportedly scan your conversations on Messenger, each of them potentially collecting personal information from you. But there are of course prying eyes, watching all these conversations. Not all of these exchanges are generic some of them are communication that users perhaps wouldn’t want to put out there for everyone to read.

Interestingly, this is the same company Facebook had engaged with for their WhatsApp encryption, that was launched a few months ago.īefore we talk about the Messenger’s encryption, we need to talk about how it works in the first place.įacebook’s Messenger currently has about 900 million users. They are using the Signal Protocol developed by Open Whisper System, to provide what they call ‘ secret’ chat areas, in which users can partake in their sensitive exchanges since only the sender and the receiver will read these messages. That means the messages are intended just for you and the other person - not anyone else, including us”, Facebook said in their announcement post.įacebook, instead of providing the end-to-end encryption for every exchange, has provided you with a space that is secure for your selective exchange to take place. “ To enable you we are starting to test the ability to create one-to-one secret conversations in Messenger that will be end-to-end encrypted and can only be read on one device of the person you’re communicating with. What’s more, this feature comes in a different way from what you would traditionally expect. To ease precisely this qualm, Facebook Messenger too, now has an end-to-end encryption feature, currently undergoing testing.įacebook is testing out this feature within its Messenger app, enabling people to have conversations that are secure on both ends. User privacy and security has been at the top of most people’s mind’s today because of the rigour with which it has been highlighted by the critics of social media and the news pundits, alike. What’s at stake most, are the user’s privacy and security.

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