NEW YORK, Aug 14 — Facebook today began rolling out encryption for voice or video calls made through its Messenger texting app, ratcheting up privacy for users. The move comes as the sanctity of data on smartphones becomes an increasingly sensitive topic. Encrypting text chats on Messenger has...
NEW YORK, Aug 14 — Facebook today began rolling out encryption for voice or video calls made through its Messenger texting app, ratcheting up privacy for users.Encrypting text chats on Messenger has been an option since 2016.
“The content of your messages and calls in an end-to-end encrypted conversation is protected from the moment it leaves your device to the moment it reaches the receiver’s device,” Messenger director of product management Ruth Kricheli said in a blog post.End-to-end encryption is already widely used by apps including Facebook-owned WhatsApp and is becoming an industry standard.
Apple’s recent announcement that it would scan encrypted messages for evidence of child sexual abuse has revived debate on online encryption and privacy, raising fears the same technology could be used for government surveillance.
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