Meta starts end-to-end encryption testing on Messenger, now personal chat will be more secure than before

Meta has announced its plans to introduce default end-to-end encryption for Messenger. The social media giant has updated its blog post to confirm the privacy feature for its instant messaging platform.

In January 2022, the company started allowing Messenger users to choose the option of encrypting their DMs. Meta confirmed this commitment in a letter sent to Fight for the Future earlier this month. Let us give you more details about this news.

Police forces are complaining about the platform turning on encrypted messages by default because it creates new barriers for law enforcement to obtain evidence of criminal activity. Federal legislation also threatens industry-wide adoption of encryption.

Meanwhile, civil rights groups have argued that Senator Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) EARN IT Act could make it easier to prosecute platforms for offering encryption services that have been used to send and receive child sexual abuse material. May go.

Last month, Meta introduced real-time avatar calls to Messenger. This feature will be helpful when users do not want to show their real faces during a video call and want a third option between camera-off and camera-on.

During a company-wide meeting in June, Meta's vice president of AI, Ahmed Al-Dahle, said the company would use its image generation model to allow Messenger users to create stickers based on text prompts.