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Facebook and Messenger to automatically encrypt messages – BBC.com
7 December 2023 Image source, Getty Images All Facebook and Messenger chats will be encrypted automatically, parent company Meta has announced.
Breaking News: Messenger Boosts Privacy Metas Bold Move Towards WhatsApp-Like Encryption | by J. A. Jackson … – Medium
In a groundbreaking move, Meta is set to enhance the privacy of its Messenger app, mirroring the security features of its sibling, WhatsApp.
Ticker: MBTA expanding fare discounts; Meta rolls out end-to-end encryption – Boston Herald
(042522 BOSTON, MA): A demonstrator holds a sign during a rally calling for affordable MBTA fares for those with a low-income held outside the Park St T station on April 25, 2022 in BOSTON, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald) Agency staffers are developing the details of a low-income fare program that would expand reduced fare options for certain groups, including students, young adults, seniors and people with disabilities. The pending policy could reach between 50,000-60,000 riders over the first five years, said Steven Povich, the MBTAs senior director of fare policy and analytics
Proton Drive brings end-to-end encrypted photo backups to Android – BGR
End-to-end encryption is the main feature of Protons software. The Swiss software developer started with Proton Mail a few years ago, and now operates a variety of useful apps that you can bundle together or use separately, depending on your needs.
Facebook Messenger update sets default end-to-end encryption for chats and calls – Engadget
Today, Meta has unveiled what it calls "the biggest set of improvements to Messenger since it was first launched in 2011." First and foremost, end-to-end encryption is now a default for private chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook, meaning your secured communication can't be spied on by others not even by Meta itself, apparently. Once updated, Messenger will ask users to set up a PIN, in case they need to recover messages on a new device later. The global rollout may take a few months to complete, due to the fact that the app has over a billion users.
Meta Finally Makes Encrypted Messaging Default for Facebook, Messenger and Instagram Chat – The Tech Report
Seven years after Meta (known as Facebook at the time) began working on it, end-to-end encryption is finally being made default across the companys messaging platforms.
Meta begins end-to-end encryption rollout – Yahoo Finance UK
Meta has begun its rollout of automatic encryption of all Facebook and Messenger chats, the company has announced. Messages and calls protected by end-to-end-encryption (E2EE), which has been an option since 2016, can be read only by the sender and recipient. Under the changes, Meta will no longer have access to the contents of what users send or receive, unless one user in a chat chooses to report a message to the company.
Meta starts adding controversial encryption to Facebook and Messenger chats – The Independent
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inboxSign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Meta will start automatically encrypting Facebook and Messenger chats, it has said. The new end-to-end encryption ensures that messages are scrambled as they are delivered, so that they cannot be read by anyone else, including the company itself. Security experts and companies including Meta and Apple have argued that the technology is key to ensuring that communications on the internet remain safe
Used by only a few nerds, Facebook kills PGP-encrypted emails – TechCrunch
Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch In 2015, as part of the wave of encrypting all the things on the internet, encouraged by the Edward Snowden revelations, Facebook announced that it would allow users to receive encrypted emails from the company. Even at the time, this was a feature for the paranoid users. By turning on the feature, all emails sent from Facebook mostly notifications of likes and private messages to the users who opted-in would be encrypted with the decades-old technology called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP.
Meta Brings End-to-End Encryption to All Messenger Chats and Calls – Times Now
Meta has announced that end-to-end encryption (E2EE) will be implemented across all chats and calls on both the Messenger app and the Facebook platform. This move represents a substantial change towards putting user privacy and security first. Data is protected by E2EE technology since it is only readable by the sender and recipient