Facebook adds end-to-end encryption for video, voice calls, makes changes to disappearing messages feature

End-to-end encryption keeps your personal chats safe from hackers and cybercriminals. It is impossible to gain access to an encrypted chat and not even Facebook can do it.

Facebook on Friday announced that it has rolled out end-to-end encryption for voice and video calls on Messenger. Facebook’s other apps WhatsApp and Messenger already have end-to-end encryption on text messages. End-to-end encryption adds an extra layer of security to the private texts of users and now even calls. The end-to-end encrypted calls or chats can only be accessed by the sender and the receiver. Not even Facebook or WhatsApp can access those chats. Along with this, Facebook has also updated its disappearing messages feature. Announcing the feature, Facebook said in its blog, “Since 2016, we’ve offered the option to secure your one-on-one text chats with end-to-end encryption. In the past year, we’ve seen a surge in the use of audio and video calling with more than 150 million video calls a day on Messenger. Now we’re introducing calling to this chat mode, so you can secure your audio and video calls with this same technology if you choose.”