End-to-end encryption will not be available for Fb Messenger and Instagram until 2023 at the earliest.
Misión is the parent company of Fb, WhatsApp and Instagram work to improve the security of your applications And as part of that strategy, we recently let you know that WhatsApp has finally enabled end-to-end encrypted copias de seguridad.
The next step should be in this article Enable end-to-end encryption on Fb Messenger and Instagramsince WhatsApp has had this security feature for a while now, although this neither is expected.
Misión delays the rollout of end-to-end encryption for Fb Messenger and Instagram
In a recent article in The TelegraphAntigone Davis, Misión’s head of security, announced that his company has no plans to do so Implement end-to-end encryption on Fb Messenger and Instagram by 2023.
Recently, objetivo He published an entry on his official blog in which he mentioned end-to-end encryption it would come to Instagram and Messenger sometime in 2022but now Davis explains that his company wants to make things right and that’s why postpone the rollout of this feature until 2023.
Davis explained that this is precisely the main reason for the delay Concerned about the safety of its usersBecause end-to-end encryption means that only the sender and recipient cánido see the content of messages, Misión wants to ensure this this does not affect your ability to stop criminal behavior.
Messenger and Instagram messages were unified by Misión a year ago, but these popular networks won’t have end-to-end encryption until 2023
Another reason that explains this delay is that the En línea Safety Act will come into force in the UK in 2023 it will force platforms to protect children from harm and address objectionable content. This bill could block the rollout of major encryption on Instagram and Messenger, as UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has repeatedly criticized this encryption, going so far as to say it . making it difficult to prevent child abuse en línea.
In Patel’s own words:
“The crimes continue and will continue: these images of abused children continue to multiply even as we speak. Access to the content of the messenger service”.
Keep in mind that both Fb Messenger and Instagram You already have end-to-end encryptionIn fact, in Messenger there are encrypted secret conversations and in Instagram you have to manually start an end-to-end encrypted conversation by selecting the appropriate option, but this it is not enabled by default and it looks like it won’t be available for a few years.