Sadly, Meta has announced that the rollout of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Messenger and Instagram will get postponed to 2023. Therefore, it looks like there's still a long time to go before we get the highly demanded feature for the messaging services.
The reason for the postponement is that enabling E2EE on those services will help shield abusers from detection. To address the worries of anti-abuse campaigners, Meta decided to push the plan until a further date. Antigone Davis, Meta's head of safety, announces that the company is "taking its time to get this right and it doesn't plan to finish the global rollout of end-to-end encryption by default across all its messaging services until sometime in 2023."
It seems like it's a tough one for the company to juggle between privacy and safety. Davis also mentions that "people shouldn't have to choose between privacy and safety." Therefore, the company "is building strong safety measures into its plans and engaging with privacy and safety experts, civil society and governments to make sure it gets this right." Finally, it's worth mentioning that E2EE is still available for limited users on the platforms, although it hasn't gotten a wide rollout yet.
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