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Starting 2023, New Facebook and Instagram Message Services will be Protected by Encryption Features

Illustration of social media Facebook and Instagram which both have messaging services but are not equipped with end-to-end encryption features. The plan, the new feature will be present on Facebook and Instagram in 2023. (Source: Getty Images)

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.TV – End to end encryption feature or end-to-end encryption It is still the desire of Facebook and Instagram social media users to send messages.

The reason is, Facebook Inc. which has been transformed into Meta, will only bring this security feature on Facebook and Instagram in 2023.

Launch The TelegraphLast Saturday (20/11/2021), Head of Global Security Meta Antigone Davis said that the plan would take a long time because of the many challenges.

Starting from the protection and privacy aspects for users that must be presented appropriately in the encryption features for the two platforms, so as to prevent illegal and dangerous actions.

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However, Davis stressed, Meta doesn’t want its encryption features to interfere with the company’s efforts to eradicate criminal acts that take advantage of their platform.

“There is a debate about how technology companies can continue to fight abuse and support the important work of law enforcement if we can’t access your messages,” Davis said.

According to Davis, Meta needs time to hear input from privacy and security experts, civil society, and the government, so that its encryption features can function properly in the future.

“We are taking a lot of time to fix it (security system) and we plan to complete the global rollout of the feature end-to-end encryption by default across our messaging services until around 2023,” he said.

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