According to Meta, encryption will be best for criminals and illegal content.
End-to-end encryption for Messenger and Instagram has been hanging in the air for some time now, but now with the introduction of the system, more and more uncontrollable content will appear on the chat interfaces.
Therefore, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp has postponed the introduction of end-to-end encryption until 2023.
Antigone Davis, Chief Security Officer of Meta a Sunday Telegraph Nak Comment on the decision as follows:
“We don’t want to rush this, so we don’t plan to complete the introduction of end-to-end encryption into our messaging systems until 2023.”
Although the system has already started for some, the global transition is still on hold, so only the most fortunate users can chat in the Meta platforms. Davis revealed that he wants to do his best to protect the private conversation of his users, but at the same time not allow space for illegal content on their platform.
Telegram uses similar encryption, and that’s the problem In this article We wrote in more detail. It looks like Meta finally wants to be more careful about this.