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Meta Announces End-to-End Encryption by Default in Messenger
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Yesterday Meta announced that they have begun rolling out default end-to-end encryption for one-to-one messages and voice calls on Messenger and Facebook. While there remain some privacy concerns around backups and metadata, we applaud this decision. It will bring strong encryption to over one billion people, protecting them from dragnet surveillance of the contents of their Facebook messages.
Governments are continuing to attack encryption with laws designed to weaken it. With authoritarianism on the rise around the world, …
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