Zuckerberg has now explained that combining these three platforms will provide offer more secure end-to-end encryption. While end-to-end encryption is currently available only on WhatsApp, this move is said to benefit Messenger and Instagram users as it would enable them to send end-to-end encrypted messages across these platforms. Right now end-to-end encryption has to be activated on Messenger whereas it’s not available on Instagram DMs.
He also noted that ‘tens of millions’ of Android users who use Messenger as their default SMS app at present would benefit from having encryption enabled as a default.
“The integration that we’re thinking about, we’re really early in thinking through this,” said Zuckerberg during the earnings call. “There’s a lot more we need to figure out. I think it’s the direction we should be going with more things in the future,” he added.
But while Facebook’s CEO is planning to broaden the availability of end-to-end encryption by stitching the apps’ infrastructure into one, several questions have raised about privacy and how users data will be shared across these messaging services.
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