In 2015, as part of the wave of encrypting all the things on the internet, encouraged by the Edward Snowden revelations, Facebook announced that it would allow users to receive encrypted emails from ...

In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and ...

In a significant move towards enhancing user privacy and security, Facebook announced late last year that end-to-end encryption would become the default setting for all chats and calls on its popular ...

Facebook is rebuffing efforts by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to give authorities a way to read encrypted messages. The heads of Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Messenger services told Barr and his ...

(CNN) — Users of Meta’s Facebook and Messenger apps will now automatically gain the protections of end-to-end encryption, a major boost to security and privacy, the company said Wednesday. (CNN) — ...

Facebook created a program to access encrypted user actions in rival apps, new court records say. The program went on for at least three years, focusing on Snapchat then YouTube and Amazon. CEO Mark ...

Meta added end-to-end encryption for one-on-one chats in 2016. End-to-end encryption wasn't enabled by default, like in iMessage, WhatsApp, and Signal, but now, Meta is finally ready to deliver on its ...

Meta, the company that makes Facebook Messenger and owns the similar instant-messaging platform WhatsApp, has announced that it finally supports end-to-end encryption as standard with that being the ...