Facebook, or better said Meta, decided to postpone until 2023 the implementation of a system that would completely encrypt the data transmitted by users between them, but also with the servers through which the two platforms currently operate.
Facebook decided to do this as early as 2020, but kept postponing the implementation for various reasons, and now it seems that politicians in the US, but also the intelligence services, are somewhat opposed to the implementation, citing various problems regarding the investigations they are carrying out .
Facebook says that this system would offer more protection for the data that is transmitted between people, regardless of whether it is pictures or messages, but the authorities in the USA, Great Britain, and not only, say that the impossibility of intercepting the data can lead to national security issues.
Facebook has been cooperating for years with the US authorities, at various levels, so it is not necessarily surprising that it does not want to fully encrypt its data transmissions because they ask it not to do it, and although it announces that in 2023 it would he could do it, this is unlikely to happen even then.
"Meta - as Facebook's parent company is now called - has said that encryption of messages for apps will now come in 2023. Child protection groups and politicians have warned that it could hinder police investigating child abuse. The UK's National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has claimed that private messaging "is the frontline of child sexual abuse".
