Meta has announced an upcoming security update to Messenger and Facebook. It will switch on E2E encrypted messaging, the ability to edit messages, and much more. It’ll arrive for all within months.
Meta’s Messenger is one of the world’s most common ways to send messages with contacts, now the company has said it will roll out end-to-end (E2E) encryption for all personal chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook.
To be clear, encryption has been available on these platforms for a while but this latest news means the feature is switched on by default for personal messages and calls. Under the new scheme, messages that you send are protected from the moment they leave your device to the moment they reach your contact’s device, preventing any middlemen, including Meta, from seeing what you said.
In the past when messaging clients had or added encryption, it sometimes meant a more restrictive experience in terms of features.
