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EEE, or as its more commonly known, End-to-End Encryption, is the bane of most data collecting agencies out there, as it hinders efforts to gather personal info, or even worst, private data. The social media network, Facebook, has been struggling to add End-to-End Encryption to its subsidiaries, like Facebook Messenger and Instagram, since 2019, although, in a recentblog update, the social media giant announced that the privacy feature will not be arriving any time soon.

While we expect to make more progress on default end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Instagram Direct this year, its a long-term project and we wont be fully end-to-end encrypted until sometime in 2022 at the earliest. Moreover, the safety features weve already introduced are designed to work with end-to-end encryption, and we plan to continue building strong safety features into our services.

As Facebook notes in the blog post mentioned previously, We need to find a balance of safety, privacy, and security.In stark contrast with WhatsApp policy, which offers EEE by default, an app also owned by Facebook. Even raising some concerns about Facebooks intent on unifying WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram Direct messaging service, under one governing set of rules. On the other hand, this can also mean that Facebook will hesitate to integrate and unify, rather than reduce WhatsApps security level.

We need to find a balance of safety, privacy, and security.There is a clear need to balance the privacy and security of peoples messages with maintaining a safe environment and providing data to law enforcement in response to potential real-world harms. We discussed tools that can protect peoples privacy while also preventing harm from happening in the first place, using behavioral signals, traffic data, or user reports rather than access to the content of all messages. There was no consensus on a recommended approach, but experts encouraged more consultation to help strike an appropriate balance.

Somesourcesspeculate that this move may have political implications, then technical, as Facebook is under considerable scrutiny and opposition from law enforcement and child protection organizations for potentially harboring illegal communication from the view of the authorities.

Compared with other messaging services like Signal and Telegram, which are drawing more and more users to their platform, the social media giant is bound to lose an impressive sum of customers due to Facebooks poor privacy policies. Signal and Telegram received aspike in downloadsfollowing the controversy around WhatsApps intended adjustments to its terms of service, although Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger rest ontop of the Play Stores free apps.

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Facebook Messenger and Instagram Will Not Support End-to-End Encryption Any Time Soon - TechTheLead