WhatsApp’s boss even penned an opinion piece giving all the reasons such security was “essential” albeit under threat from lawmakers and regulators. WhatsApp used its default and-to-end encryption as its primary (some might say only) defense against the accusation that Facebook was encroaching on the privacy of its users. The contrast between Facebook Messenger and its WhatsApp stablemate has been fascinating this year-and, in reality, sends a very clear message to those 1.3 billion Messenger users that it’s now time to jump ship. If MI5’s boss sounding a warning was the first piece of new news aimed at Facebook’s Menlo Park HQ, then the second was the quite extraordinary backtrack the company was forced into over WhatsApp’s controversial change of terms. Let’s see how fast Facebook works out compensatory tech to deal with Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency, by way of comparison. We’ve known for some weeks now that Facebook has delayed its Messenger security upgrade until next year, “at the earliest,” and while this has been painted as a technical issue given the sprawling nature of the platform, the clever money is on it being more complex than that. Suddenly hundreds of millions (now two billion) users were able to use a secure mainstream platform, leaving lawmakers in the “dark.” If WhatsApp can’t see your content, neither can a law enforcement agency-even with a warrant. When WhatsApp pushed the big red button in 2016, end-to-end encrypting all messages for all users, there wasn’t the focus on encryption that there is now.
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