Facebook Messenger groups now have end-to-end encryption for calls and chats
Meta isn’thurryingto encrypt the communications of Facebook and Instagram users from end to end by default. But it will continue to make baby steps on providing E2EE to them, including to groups on Facebook Messenger starting today.
The company is officially making encryption available in group chats and calls, both video and voice. It originally began testinglate last summer. One-on-one chats and calls up to this point were available encrypted inSecret Conversation mode.
If you use disappearing messages on Messenger, you’ll also be receiving notifications if a recipient screenshots the thread, just as invanish mode. However, the rollout will take a few weeks.
Antigone Davis, global head of safety at Meta, wrote inThe Sunday Telegraphin November that the company is taking its time to get things right and that it won’t make end-to-end encryption default on its messaging platforms until “sometime in 2023.”
WhatsApp remains the only Meta-owned platform withE2EE, standard.
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