How to enable end-to-end encryption on Facebook Messenger
by Barbara Krasnoff from The Verge - All Posts on (#62JM9)
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge 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...