On Wednesday, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg put forward a new idea: doing the opposite. Critics of the company greeted Zuckerberg’s suggestion that the product update is about privacy with instant skepticism. “I strongly support consumer privacy when communicating online but this move is entirely a strategic play to use privacy as a competitive advantage & further lock-in Facebook as the dominant messaging platform,” tweeted Ashkan Soltani, a former chief technologist for the Federal Trade Commission. Access to users’ data is still dictated by Facebook. Implementing end-to-end encryption will prevent Facebook from collecting data on the content of its users’ messages, but Facebook has not said that it will change or limit its collection of data about users on other fronts.

Source: The Guardian March 06, 2019 19:45 UTC