

“We believe people shouldn’t have to choose between privacy and safety,” Meta’s Davis said. MORE FROM FORBES iOS 15.2-Apple's iMessage Safety Update Is A Major Change For iPhone Privacy By null Apple’s poorly conceived plan to compromise iMessage’s end-to-end encryption with on-phone AI detection for sexually explicit images sent to or received by children, prompted a response.

Meta’s update on Facebook Messenger security was not really intended to drop the bad news on timing, but more to reassure on child safety. For that we can turn to WhatsApp again, and the eleven words in its statement on fighting child exploitation that undermine Facebook’s argument to add full encryption to Messenger: “On WhatsApp, you cannot search for people you do not know.” This isn’t the most serious Messenger problem, though.
