Meta is delaying end-to-end encryption for Facebook Messenger and Instagram until 2023 …

Meta’s plans to fully encrypt Messenger and Instagram have been delayed until 2023. The company was supposed to release the feature early next year. End-to-end encryption for Messenger and Instagram was announced along with the merger of the two apps. Meta (formerly Facebook) had announced back in 2019 its plans to offer a unified messaging system with privacy in mind. The first part of the plan is in action but the second part might take more time. Facebook Messenger and Instagram as part of this plan were supposed to get end-to-end encryption by default but it won’t happen at least until 2023, according to a report by The Guardian. End-to-end encryption for Facebook Messenger and Instagram was earlier planned for “sometime in 2022 at the earliest”, according to a blog post by Meta. But the company is now delaying this feature to 2023. “We’re taking our time to get this right and we don’t plan to finish the global rollout of end-to-end encryption by default across all our messaging services until sometime in 2023,” Antigone Davis, Meta’s head of safety was quoted as saying in The Telegraph. The reason behind the delay is due to user safety concerns as Meta…
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