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Privacy is a topic that many are concerned with. It's important enough that the US government made Mark Zuckerberg attend a congress session to explain Facebook's policies regarding data collection. That's probably why Meta is launching a new Privacy Center.

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.

For most WhatsApp users, the Multi-device feature was the one that's worth noting in 2021. But business users are all hoping for a way to monetise the platform, and the company has been working on that for months. Now, we have some hints on ad creation for the platform.

Sometimes once in a while, you would get tagged by Facebook from another person's photo because the system recognises your face. Whether you find it helpful or annoying, it seems that Meta will be shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook. The reason being is because the company is looking to limit the technology in their products. 

Remember Facebook's decision to rebrand last week? CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will be known as 'Meta' going forward, but things might not be as easy as he hoped. Moreover, it might end up being more expensive than expected.

While Facebook has renamed itself to Meta, most of its apps and products have avoided that awkward name change. That doesn't mean that nothing will change for apps like Facebook Messenger. In fact, sources have found new features for the platform.

Since the instalment of the App Tracking Transparency in April 2021, Apple introduced an anti-privacy policy that gives you the option to allow third-party apps to track your data or not. It's been a year since then, so is there any impact from that?

While technology is getting more convenient for us, our online privacy is also something that we should be concerned about. According to security researchers, iPhone users who take this seriously should just delete Facebook because of how the company collects your data.

Today, the Facebook Company (formerly) will be now known as Meta. This was officially announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Connect 2021 and no, the Facebook social media platform won't change its name. From Facebook's newsroom, the Meta name change is a new direction that brings the company's apps and technologies under one new brand. 

During Facebook's Q3 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed some of the upcoming plans for the social media platforms. Out of them, one got our attention by mentioning that the company will shift their focus to young adults with "significant changes" applied to Facebook and Instagram.