Social media giant Facebook has said that it has begun offering an option to encrypt messages - a way to have secret conversations with other users - to some of 900 million users of Messenger, its messaging app.
The end-to-end encryption is a system that allows only the communicating users to read the messages. The upgrade will prohibit even Facebook from reading users’ conversation.
Facebook introduced end-to-end encryption to one billion users of WhatsApp messaging app in April. Encrypting Messenger is a tougher challenge than WhatsApp because the service is widely used via browsers on personal computers, as well as on smartphones.
While on WhatsApp, the end-to-end encryption is turned on by default, with Messenger users will have to turn on the feature, which hasn’t gone down well with a few.
End-to-end encryption would not immediately be available on Messenger for group conversations, chatbots, payments or videos.
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