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Facebook testing end-to-end encryption in Messenger, branded Secret Conversations

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<p><a href="http://9to5mac.com/guides/facebook-messenger/" target="_blank">Facebook Messenger[/url] is the latest app to adopt end-to-end encryption for its chats, ensuring that conversations cannot be accessed even by <a href="http://9to5mac.com/guides/facebook/" target="_blank">Facebook[/url]. It’s just in testing so far, but the company says that it will be made available more widely in the course of the summer.</p>

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We are starting to test the ability to create one-to-one secret conversations in Messenger that will be end-to-end encrypted and which can only be read on one device of the person you’re communicating with. That means the messages are intended just for you and the other person — not anyone else, including us.</span></p>

<p>While Apple uses end-to-end encryption as standard for both iMessages and FaceTime, and WhatsApp <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/04/05/following-apples-lead-with-imessage-whatsapp-rolls-out-end-to-end-encryption-for-all-communication/" target="_blank">followed suit[/url] in April, Facebook is taking a slightly different approach …</p>
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