"I believe the future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure and their messages and content won't stick around forever," Zuckerberg wrote. Facebook's business model, built on providing advertisers with data mined from its users' activities, has been at odds with the principles of private messaging platforms. "But we've repeatedly shown that we can evolve to build the services that people really want, including in private messaging and stories." Encryption is critical to ensuring privacy, Zuckerberg said, as he outlined plans to broadly incorporate end-to-end encryption across all of Facebook's messaging services. "Finding the right ways to protect both privacy and safety is something societies have historically grappled with," Zuckerberg wrote.

Source: Forbes March 06, 2019 22:30 UTC