How to enable end-to-end encryption on Facebook Messenger - The Verge

If you’re about to embark on a Messenger conversation that you want to keep private, here’s how to turn end-to-end encryption on.

While protecting your privacy online has been a subject of interest for a while now, events in the news — for example, the chat history Facebook recently turned over to police — have brought it front and center. But how do you protect your privacy while staying in touch with friends and relatives? While there are a number of messaging apps that boast increased privacy features, sometimes you can’t persuade the people you want to keep in touch with to use them. What is your alternative? What, for example, if they insist on chatting with Facebook Messenger?

Well, you can start by using end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on Messenger.

Basically, end-to-end encryption means that nobody — even Facebook’s company Meta — should be able to read what is in your chat. In short, this is accomplished by each party’s account being assigned a special key; only the account with that key can unlock the message. Currently, Meta has E2EE available on its Messenger platform but only on a per-chat basis. The company has announced its intention to turn on E2EE by default soon, but in the meantime, if you’re about to embark on a Messenger conversation that you want to keep private, here’s how to turn it on. (The process is generally the same for both Android devices and iPhones.)

The lock toggle on top indicates this is an encrypted conversation.

You can also enable E2EE in the info page by tapping on Go to secret conversation.

If you’re already chatting with the person and decide you want to enable E2EE, you can do that as well.

From that information page, you can also go into Vanish mode, which will cause the conversation to vanish when you close the chat.

https://www.theverge.com/23307995/facebook-messenger-end-to-end-encryption-how-to


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