Aside from Meta AI, the company is also rolling out end-to-end encryption for personal messages as well as calls on Facebook Messenger and Facebook. This is a feature that the company promised a long, long time ago, and it is finally rolling out, which certainly is a good thing.

Better late than never, as Facebook Messenger is finally getting universal end-to-end encryption

It is important to know that Facebook Messenger has had encryption since 2016, but it was a part of the "secret conversation" feature rather than being enabled by default. However, that is now changing as the feature will be enabled by default, which is how it should have been from the get-go.

According to Loredana Crisan, Head of Facebook Messenger, Meta is now going to turn on end-to-end encryption for messages as well as calls between two people. Crisan claims that the company has spent years "rebuilding Messenger features from the ground up."

Since 2016, Messenger has had the option for people to turn on end-to-end encryption, but we're now changing private chats and calls across Messenger to be end-to-end encrypted by default. This has taken years to deliver because we've taken our time to get this right. Our engineers, cryptographers, designers, policy experts and product managers have worked tirelessly to rebuild Messenger features from the ground up. We've introduced new privacy, safety and control features along the way like delivery controls that let people choose who can message them, as well as app lock, alongside existing safety features like report, block and message requests. We worked closely with outside experts, academics, advocates and governments to identify risks and build mitigations to ensure that privacy and safety go hand-in-hand.

Now, we don't have to explain end-to-end encryption to anyone, but it is just going to provide an added layer of security for anyone who is looking to make sure that all their content is protected. I do understand that users might not take his feature as seriously, but it certainly is something that adds another layer of protection, and we simply cannot avoid that.

With that said, Meta has mentioned that with this feature turned on, Facebook Messenger users will not lose access to all the other features, such as the ability to use their chats and custom reactions. Now, the feature is rolling out at the moment, but it could take some time before it is enabled by default for everyone across the globe.

News Source: Facebook