If you’re one of the 1.3 billion people using Facebook Messenger, then you have already been warned of significant delays to critical security enhancements. That upgrade has been described by company executives as “essential,” even as they confirm serious slippage. Now the situation has become much worse, with two critical developments. “We need to find a balance of safety, privacy, and security,” Facebook says of its hyper-scale Messenger app, which is second only to WhatsApp in popularity. The issue is that Messenger has become center stage in the fight between law enforcement and big tech over privacy, and that has left more than a billion users in a security limbo-land. Unlike WhatsApp, your content is not fully secured on Facebook Messenger—the company itself has admitted to spying on your content and we recently exposed them for “secretly” downloading private links and files sent between users. MORE FROM FORBESWhy You Should Stop Sending Links On Facebook MessengerBy Zak DoffmanFacebook says it wants to fix this—albeit Facebook says a lot of things. It promises to widen the end-to-end encryption that secures WhatsApp to protect Messenger as well as messages sent over Instagram. That promise was made two-years ago—and what we have thus…
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Why You Should Stop Using Your Facebook Messenger App
