Facebook Messenger blocks snoopers

11 July 2016 - 09:27

By © The Daily Telegraph

Facebook Messenger has become the latest social media app to roll out encryption as a feature, making certain conversations completely private.The new feature will be called "Secret Conversations" and will exist within the regular app - similar to an incognito tab in your web browser.The app, currently used by more than 900million people globally, takes its lead from sister-app WhatsApp, which rolled out end-to-end encryption for its 1billion users across all devices in April.

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