Privacy issues have long been debated for Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram and other Meta services. In particular with regard to the exchange of messages, these services have not given any guarantee that they are really private and cannot be read.
The biggest social network has tried to counter this scenario, with logical measures that bring the intended privacy. It is not everywhere yet, but now it will have suffered a setback. On Messenger and Instagram, point-to-point message encryption should only happen automatically in 2023
Meta, and also Facebook, have been actively creating all the tools to protect users' messages. They want to encrypt all communications and thus ensure that messages cannot be read. Already active in services such as WhatsApp, it has yet to be brought to others.
Now that Messenger and Instagram are able to talk to each other, it is also important that these messages are encrypted and protected. The new Internet giant has this design in its plans, but it seems that it is delaying its arrival for users.
The most recent information they are now moving forward with a change in the Meta plans regarding the activation of end-to-end ciphering in messages. With regard to Messenger and Instagram, this will only be active natively from 2023 onwards, with no advanced date yet.
Announced for 2022, this should be the most direct way to guarantee user privacy. It will encrypt conversations as they leave the user's device until they reach the recipient. So, no one will be able to read them outside of these 2 elements.
In fact, this capability already exists in the apps of these two services. Both Messenger and Instagram already allow this end-to-end cipher, but it is natively disabled. The big change, which after all only arrives in 2023, is that it will be active in a natural way for all users.
This turns out to be a step back from plans to increase security on Messenger, Instagram and other Meta messaging services. It remains then to wait for 2023 or manually activate this option.
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