<p>Meta-owned Facebook Messenger and Instagram are delaying plans to encrypt users' messages until 2023. In a post in <em>The Telegraph</em>, Antigone Davis, Meta's head of safety, attributes the delay to concerns about user safety.</p>.<p>"We are taking our time to get this right and we don't plan to finish the global rollout of end-to-end encryption by default across all our messaging services until sometime in 2023," Antigone Davis wrote in <em>The Telegraph.</em></p>.<p>"As a company that connects billions of people around the world and has built industry-leading technology, we're determined to protect people's private communications and keep people safe online," Davis added.</p>.<p><strong>Also read — <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/new-us-probe-targets-instagrams-impact-on-children-1052289.html" target="_blank">New US probe targets Instagram's impact on children</a></strong></p>.<p>With E2EE [end-to-end encryption], only the sender and recipient will see their conversations, the firm wants to ensure that this does not interfere with the platform's ability to help stop criminal activity.</p>.<p>Facebook had first started rolling out encryption to its Messenger service back in 2016, but it only works when users use the 'secret conversation' feature on the service.</p>.<p>Earlier this year, Meta said that default E2EE would become available on Instagram and Messenger "sometime in 2022 at the earliest."</p>.<p>Facebook has taken criticism over the years for being slow to implement end-to-end encryption by default on all of its platforms.</p>.<p>In addition, Meta is also planning to unify the infrastructure behind the three messaging platforms -- Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram Direct.</p>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>
<p>Meta-owned Facebook Messenger and Instagram are delaying plans to encrypt users' messages until 2023. In a post in <em>The Telegraph</em>, Antigone Davis, Meta's head of safety, attributes the delay to concerns about user safety.</p>.<p>"We are taking our time to get this right and we don't plan to finish the global rollout of end-to-end encryption by default across all our messaging services until sometime in 2023," Antigone Davis wrote in <em>The Telegraph.</em></p>.<p>"As a company that connects billions of people around the world and has built industry-leading technology, we're determined to protect people's private communications and keep people safe online," Davis added.</p>.<p><strong>Also read — <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/new-us-probe-targets-instagrams-impact-on-children-1052289.html" target="_blank">New US probe targets Instagram's impact on children</a></strong></p>.<p>With E2EE [end-to-end encryption], only the sender and recipient will see their conversations, the firm wants to ensure that this does not interfere with the platform's ability to help stop criminal activity.</p>.<p>Facebook had first started rolling out encryption to its Messenger service back in 2016, but it only works when users use the 'secret conversation' feature on the service.</p>.<p>Earlier this year, Meta said that default E2EE would become available on Instagram and Messenger "sometime in 2022 at the earliest."</p>.<p>Facebook has taken criticism over the years for being slow to implement end-to-end encryption by default on all of its platforms.</p>.<p>In addition, Meta is also planning to unify the infrastructure behind the three messaging platforms -- Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram Direct.</p>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>