Meta to roll out default end-to-end encryption in Messenger

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced that it plans to expand its default end-to-end encryption to Messenger by the end of this year. This basically means that the messages sent on Messenger will be encrypted, just like in WhatsApp, so that only the sender and recipient can read them.

“Starting today, millions more people’s chats on Messenger will be upgraded to stronger encryption standards as part of our ongoing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) testing. We remain on track to launch default E2EE for one-to-one friends and family chats on Messenger by the end of the year,” company announced in a blog post on Tuesday.