For some time now, it seems that Mark Zuckerberg's company is adapting its messaging applications to the privacy needs of users. A few months ago WhatsApp began to encrypt all conversations between end-to-end users, so that only its interlocutors can have access. A feature that was available for a long time in other messaging apps like Telegram. But once the problem with WhatsApp has been solved, it is the turn of the company's other messaging application, Facebook Messenger, the second most used messaging application in the world.
As announced by Facebook, the company is testing a new feature, secret conversations in Messenger an option that allows conversations between two people only, no groups, in which the information is completely encrypted and that we can also program to automatically delete after a few minutes or hours, other functions that are already available in Telegram for a long time and that the social network is gradually implementing on its platform.
The intention of Facebook, as explained is to further protect the privacy of all users of its messaging platform encrypting content end-to-end, but with an extra security since conversations can only be read on the devices from where they are made. In this way, if we start a secret chat on the iPhone we will not be able to follow it on the PC, Mac or our tablet.
This type of secret chats, like the one offered by other companies, it will only allow to send text, no videos, GIFs, images, stickers or others with which we like to personalize our messages. According to Facebook's forecasts, the company will have this new service ready before the end of the summer, if the tests they are currently carrying out go as they should and there is no problem on the way.
