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(Pocket-lint) – Meta will not introduce end-to-end encryption by default in Facebook Messenger and Instagram conversations until 2023.
At the beginning of the year, Meta promised that the data protection option would be available to all Facebook Messenger and Instagram users “by 2022 at the earliest”. Now the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp has a post in The Telegraph (like first from The Guardian reports ) announced that overall efforts have been delayed due to user safety concerns.
With end-to-end encryption, only the sender and recipient can see a message. While messages sent over Facebook Messenger and Instagram can be end-to-end encrypted, the option is not enabled by default and it will take a few more years now. Davis said Meta doesn’t want the feature to interfere with its ability to stop criminal activity and that it “wants to get this right”.
To support the “public safety efforts”, Meta now plans to use a “combination of unencrypted data” for apps, account information and reports from users. Remember that WhatsApp already supports end-to-end encryption by default.
Britain, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and Japan also have signed an international declaration , which warns of the dangers of encryption and asks platforms to give law enforcement agencies backdoor access to encrypted messages and files with a guarantee.
BBC sea the UK Home Secretary believes end-to-end encryption could make it difficult to prevent child abuse online.
Writing from Maggie Tillman. Originally) released on .
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