End-to-end encryption (E2EE) support will be made standard for one-to-one friends and family chats on Messenger by the end of the year, according to a new statement from Meta.
The social media behemoth announced that as part of that endeavor, “millions more people’s chats” will be upgraded starting on August 22, 2023, exactly seven months after it began progressively introducing the function to more users in January 2023.
The modifications are a part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “privacy-focused vision for social networking,” which he outlined in 2019. However, since then, the plan has been delayed by a year due to substantial technological difficulties read more Meta Set to Enable Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger by Year End.
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