Internal sources of Facebook revealed that Facebook Messenger can gain support encryption within a few months. The information is from the English newspaper The Guardian, which heard three people connected to the platform and familiar with the matter. If confirmed, the function is similar to the WhatsApp , another messenger company Mark Zuckerberg .

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Besides WhatsApp, other messaging apps for mobile phones already have the security feature, such as theTelegram . The problem, however, is that the privacy system may interfere with the plans of social network use bots artificial intelligence to increase the chat application, since the technology would have access to conversations.

The technology, if implemented in the same manner used by WhatsApp , should not change the applications operation, allowing users to continue exchanging messages automatically, as usual. The change that occurs behind the scenes, is to prevent other people can have access to this content.

The system is likely to be used by Facebook is the tip of the tip encryption, a technique that allows only the sender and the message receiver can decode it. With the implementation of the resource, access to the data exchanged is locked to any other party, which means that not even the social network or any interceptions can read whats in the messages - such as text, photos and videos.

The big difference between the Messenger and WhatsApp encryption in the question should be that, first, the feature is optional and must be enabled manually by the user. This is because a conversation with end encryption can not be read by Facebooks servers, which would prevent the platform to analyze it to apply resources of artificial intelligence and machine learning ( machine learning English).

During the F8 developer event of Facebook, these features were defined by the social network as one of its differentiators for the evolution of messaging applications , but are debilitated with the use of encryption, which would, for example, the system operation suggest automatic responses to messages. Similarly, the use of bots would be harmed because they would not have to read, interpret and respond chats. 

Facebook does not yet appear officially on the subject. Moreover, there is no expected date for the release of funds.