Meta says it remains committed to rolling out default E2EE for Messenger, which has opt-in E2EE, by the end of 2023, and shortly afterwards for Instagram DMs
Meta plans to roll out default end-to-end encryption for its Messenger product by the end of this year, the company confirmed in a blog post Tuesday.
The Verge Makena Kelly
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Discussion
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@robsherman
Rob Sherman
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Some people have also asked for an update on our timing. As I recently shared with @fightfortheftr, we're looking to launch end-to-end encrypted messaging by default on @messenger by the end of 2023 and on @instagram shortly thereafter. https://www.theverge.com/...
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@robsherman
Rob Sherman
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Building end to end encryption into @messenger and @instagram DMs is critically important to giving everyone access to robust, truly private communications tools. It's also been a huge engineering challenge, as @timothybucksf shared here: https://messengernews.fb.com/ ...
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@alecmuffett
Alec Muffett
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Props to the team! https://twitter.com/...
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@alecmuffett
Alec Muffett
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This is unalloyed good news for global deployment of privacy and data security: > We remain on track to launch default E2EE for one-to-one friends and family chats on Messenger by the end of the year. https://messengernews.fb.com/ ... [image]