Facebook voice and video calls to receive end-to-end encryption
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing An estimated 1.3 billion people use Facebook's Messenger app.
But what they may not know is that video and voice call on the app haven't been encrypted. What this previously meant is that, theoretically, anyone could tap into the calls to hear what was being discussed, including Facebook itself.
A new update rolled out by the tech giant now hopes to remedy this situation by giving Messenger users the option to activate end-to-end encryption whenever they initiate a video or voice call through the app. Read more: End-to-end encryption means that the data transferred between two users is scrambled in a way that only those two users can see it, this prevents
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