Facebook is reportedly testing end-to-end encryption in video and audio calls in the Messenger app.<\/p>\n
Technology and app researcher Jane Manchun Wong tweeted a screenshot<\/strong><\/a> of the function within Messenger’s Secret Conversation interface.<\/p>\n Wong also added that Facebook plans to deploy its own voice assistant to the app.<\/p>\n Facebook first introduced Secret Conversation in 2016, allowing users to chat securely with only the sender and receiver able to read the messages.<\/p>\n To use the encrypted functionality, a user must click on their profile picture, scroll to Secret Conversation and turn it on.<\/p>\n The user can also enable the automatic deletion of messages after a preset time.<\/p>\n Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans to enhance privacy on Facebook’s platforms by adding end-to-end encryption across all its messaging services earlier this year.<\/p>\n The company has already introduced encryption in Whatsapp and wants to employ it on Instagram.<\/p>\n The move has upset US lawmakers, with the US Department of Justice expressing its concern about the policy in a letter directed to Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n Authorities are worried<\/strong><\/a> that the encryption would make it difficult to investigate criminal activities which are facilitated on Facebook’s messaging services such as the distribution of child pornography, terrorism, and extortion.<\/p>\n Facebook is reportedly testing out end-to-end encryption in video and audio calls in the Messenger app.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161,3560,61651],"class_list":["post-325687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-messenger","tag-secret-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325717,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325687\/revisions\/325717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Encryption plans under fire<\/h3>\n
Now read: WhatsApp malware hack \u2013 Facebook sues<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"