Meta announced Facebook Messenger Chats Calls end-to-end encryption Feature like Whatsapp.No one can access to Messenger chats and calls now. Facebook Messenger is considered the world’s second most popular messaging platform, and it has now incorporated one of WhatsApp’s key features.
Meta has announced that calls and chats in Messenger will obtain end-to-end encryption by default. It’s important to note that WhatsApp, also owned by Meta, has had the feature of end-to-end encryption available for quite some time. A blog post by Meta indicated that due to encryption technology, no messenger users will have access to messages or calls. New features have been introduced in Messenger related to encrypted chats. Interestingly, the company itself won’t have access to Messenger chats and calls.
Since 2016, Messenger users have had the option of end-to-end encryption, but they needed to turn it on for each chat, resulting in fewer people utilizing this feature. However, having this feature as default could significantly enhance the security of the messaging platform. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, mentioned in a Facebook post that after several years of work, they’ve made end-to-end encryption default in Messenger.
In 2019, Zuckerberg had stated that they would provide end-to-end encryption for private chats across all their company’s apps. At that time, he believed that the future of the internet would lean towards privacy-based communication platforms, giving them more significance compared to today’s open platforms. The testing of the default end-to-end encryption feature in Messenger began in 2022.
Finally, after over a year, this feature has been introduced for all users. The company mentioned that it took several years to introduce this feature because they wanted to integrate it properly into the app. The company assured that Messenger’s features won’t be affected by end-to-end encryption, and users can still use themes or custom reactions.
However, it might take a few weeks for all Messenger chats of every user to become encrypted.
