Meta-owned Facebook Messenger and Instagram are delaying plans to encrypt users' messages until 2023.
In a publish in The Telegraph, Antigone Davis, Meta's head of protection, attributes the postpone to issues about consumer protection.
"We are taking our time to get this proper and we do not plan to finish the global rollout of give up-to-quit encryption by using default across all our messaging offerings till sometime in 2023," Antigone Davis wrote in The Telegraph.
"As a employer that connects billions of humans around the sector and has constructed enterprise-leading generation, we're determined to protect human beings's personal communications and hold human beings safe on line," added.
With E2EE handiest the sender and recipient will see their conversations, the company desires to make sure that this doesn't interfere with the platform's potential to assist stop criminal activity.
Facebook had first started out rolling out encryption to its Messenger provider lower back in 2016, however it handiest works whilst users use the Secret Conversation characteristic at the service.
Earlier this yr, Meta said that default E2EE might grow to be to be had on Instagram and Messenger "sometime in 2022 at the earliest."
Facebook has taken grievance over time for being slow to enforce quit-to-stop encryption via default on all of its structures.
In addition, Meta is likewise planning to unify the infrastructure at the back of the three messaging structures -- Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram Direct.
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