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Facebook Messenger End-To-End Encryption With “Secret Conversations” Coming Soon

Paul Balo by Paul Balo
July 9, 2016
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It’s been just a month since we reported that Facebook could be bringing end-to-end encryption to Messenger and now Facebook has confirmed that it has started testing the security feature in Messenger. Well the announcement from Facebook though  doesn’t just talk about encryption but secret conversations. Encrypted end-to-end,  with secret conversations you’ll be able  to create one-to-one secret conversations in Messenger that will be end-to-end encrypted and which can only be read on one device of the person you’re communicating with. That means the messages are intended just for you and the other person — not anyone else, including us. Within a secret conversation, you can also choose to set a timer to control the length of time each message you send remains visible within the conversation.

This feature is optional and is not widely available right now because it’s currently in a test phase but Facebook says the feature will be available from this summer. No specific date was provided in the announcement.

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Messenger now has over 900 million users which is up from 200 million in 2014.

Facebook hired a former PayPal executive David Marcus in 2014 to head its Messaging products division and since then Messenger has evolved from a simple messaging app into a tool with which you can now order taxis, direct integration with cloud services like Dropbox, voice and video calls. David Marcus had announced in April that Facebook was launching a group voice call feature just to add to the growing list of features coming to Facebook’s Messenger. To increase usage, Facebook disabled direct chat within its app thereby forcing it’s billions of users to use the Messenger app.

At the last F8 summit, Facebook announced that it was introducing Chatbots to Messenger to help businesses and brands interact more with fans and customers. Facebook effectively opened this platform to developers to build bots that for businesses on their own or by using Facebook’s Bot building partners. There will be a search bar for Bots within the Messenger to search for Bots.

Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19b in 2014 to increase its dominance of the Instant Messaging  market. Together with Messenger, they both have about 2 billion users.

WhatsApp implemented end-to-end encryption in April by default in all chats and since then a number of services have announced plans to follow suit.

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Paul Balo is the founder of TechBooky and a highly skilled wireless communications professional with a strong background in cloud computing, offering extensive experience in designing, implementing, and managing wireless communication systems.

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