Facebook Messenger E2E encryption rolling out to millions more; to all by year end

Facebook Messenger E2E encryption has been available to some users for some years now, but a full rollout has taken longer than expected. The company says it is now expanding end-to-end encrypted messaging to “millions” more people, and promises that it will be standard for everyone by the end of the year … Encryption versus end-to-end encryption Currently, everything you send via Facebook Messenger is encrypted – but not using end-to-end (E2E) encryption. This means that Facebook owner Meta has a copy of the encryption key. Anyone in the company with the necessary access rights could read your private messages, as could any hacker who managed to gain the same access. E2E encryption is different. With this, only the sender(s) and recipient(s) have the keys needed to decrypt the messages. Nobody at Meta could read your messages even if they had total access to all the company’s systems. E2E encryption has for some time now been the expected standard, used by iMessage, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram (when enabled), and more. But while Meta has Secret Conversations as an option in Facebook Messenger – which does use E2E encryption – normal messages don’t. Facebook Messenger E2E encryption challenges The company has
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