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- Facebook Decides to Implement End-to-End Encryption Policy for its Messaging Tools
- Expanded Image Display feature released by WhatsApp
- The very First Edition of 'Instagram Insider' finally launched
| Facebook Decides to Implement End-to-End Encryption Policy for its Messaging Tools Posted: 02 May 2021 12:14 PM PDT
 Facebook is implementing its new end-to-end encryption policy for messages across all of its messaging services. The company announced its plan in an overview of its recent virtual workshop held with experts in privacy, safety, human rights, and consumer protection. According to Facebook, it is bringing end-to-end encryption for messages as a way to protect users' private messages. "While we expect to make more progress on default end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Instagram Direct this year, it's a long-term project and we won't be fully end-to-end encrypted until sometime in 2022 at the earliest," the company added. However, various concerns have been raised by some authorities in regard to Facebook's plan. The most significant concern is that this privacy method can be used to hide criminal activity, as it can prevent authorities from tracking illegal exchanges. Facebook announced the plan for the first time in March 2019. According to the platform's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, "End-to-end encryption is an important tool in developing a privacy-focused social network. It is an increasingly important part of our online lives, from banking to healthcare services." Representatives from the UK, US, and Australia had written an open letter to Facebook in October 2019, urging the company to quit its end-to-end encryption plans. The letter argued that the policy would put citizens and societies at risk by destroying the capacity to detect and take action against illegal content and activity, like child sexual exploitation and abuse, and terrorism. Moreover, the initial purpose behind this initiative was to expand the use of messaging in new ways, like funds transfers and eCommerce, which is part of Facebook's broader efforts to make its messaging services the key connector in regions like India and Indonesia, where digital adoption is on the rise.  |
| Expanded Image Display feature released by WhatsApp Posted: 02 May 2021 09:17 AM PDT  WhatsApp, the most widely used communication application rolled out a new update regarding the images and videos displayed in the messages. The new update will show more of the images and videos in the message thread without cropping down to fit in order to show bigger visuals. This is not a major update but is one appreciable one as it will surely make it easier to see more of the images and videos shared in the chat.  Since WhatsApp is making efforts to expand the business use, this new update can facilitate more useful options for the business users. Currently, Twitter launched a similar release of bigger images and videos rather than crop-to-fit images.
The main purpose of rolling out this feature is to make sure that it is easier to maximize your focus on the multimedia content shared and also that the users are seeing more of what you are trying to share. Again, this is not one of the major tweaks but is surely a useful one that most of the users will love.  |
| The very First Edition of 'Instagram Insider' finally launched Posted: 02 May 2021 08:26 AM PDT  The social media giant, Instagram has published its very First Edition of 'Instagram Insider' digital magazine which will be containing the important trends going on. The data for these trends will be collected through the activities on Instagram by the content creators, businesses and influencers. The digital magazine has 9 pages which can be also be downloaded in PDF form. Moreover, the magazine includes rising trends, links to must-follow top creators, overviews of keys, and example images.  Furthermore, the digital magazine also features short profile description of top content creator and influencers of the platform.  Whereas, the last section of the magazine contains a questions and answers section where the company answers most of the commonly asked questions by the users.  All in all, the short, free and downloadable PDF digital magazine by Instagram itself is worth checking out.  |
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