{"id":21121,"date":"2023-12-07T03:53:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T09:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=21121"},"modified":"2023-12-07T03:53:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T09:53:38","slug":"meta-to-start-fully-encrypting-messages-on-facebook-and-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=21121","title":{"rendered":"Meta to start fully encrypting messages on Facebook and Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Dec 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Meta Platforms&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/META.O\"><u>(META.O)<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;said on Wednesday it has started to roll out end-to-end encryption for all personal chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The end-to-end encryption feature will be available for use immediately, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2023\/12\/default-end-to-end-encryption-on-messenger\/\"><u>social media giant said<\/u><\/a>, but it may take some time for all Messenger accounts to be updated with default end-to-end encryption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Messenger previously had the option to turn on end-to-end encryption, allowing a message to be read only by the sender and its recipients, but with this change messages would be encrypted by default, Meta said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Meta, whose WhatsApp platform already encrypts messages, has said encryption can help keep users safe from hackers, fraudsters and criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">End-to-end encryption has been a bone of contention between companies and governments. The British government&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/britain-wants-work-constructively-with-meta-over-encryption-braverman-2023-09-20\/\"><u>had urged<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;Meta in September not to roll out encryption on Instagram and Facebook Messenger without safety measures to protect children from sexual abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/meta-start-fully-encrypting-messages-facebook-instagram-wsj-2023-12-07\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Meta Platforms&nbsp;(META.O)&nbsp;said on Wednesday it has started to roll out end-to-end encryption for all personal chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook. The end-to-end encryption feature will be available for use immediately, the&nbsp;social media giant said, but it may take some time for all Messenger accounts to be updated with default [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[24833,1434,24831,24832,995],"class_list":["post-21121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-encryption","tag-facebook","tag-message","tag-messenger","tag-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21123,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121\/revisions\/21123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}