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Google Messages has decided to add new end-to-end encryption to its group chat platform, a feature that is currently being tested.
Mobile devices arrived to change the way we communicate with people on a daily basis; it meant a faster and more efficient way to stay in touch with friends, family, acquaintances and others.
In this sense and from its birth, Social networks have become an almost infallible instrument to connect with users all over the world..
Today, Facebook is known to be the leading social network in the market with nearly three billion registered userswhile Instagram, Messenger (Facebook), WhatsApp, TikTok, among others, are constantly growing.
However, for some time now, one of the biggest problems that social networks have is that practically any user has access to a huge list of profiles; Privacy is, without a doubt, one of the great failures of the platforms, since users are highly exposed to all kinds of fraud, tricks, etc..
And it is that, to tell the truth, one of the biggest complaints of users of social networks has to do with security; today, with more Internet users connected to the web (it is estimated that there are close to five billion users)security becomes even more a pillar for social networks, especially at a time when these are very useful.
Google Messages has new end-to-end encryption in group chats
At the end of 2020, the year of the pandemic, Google had already begun to implement the encryption end to end in the individual Messages conversations.
Later, through 9to5GoogleIn May 2022, the company confirmed that the encryption would reach the RCS Message groups, an update that is already available in its beta version.
Published through his Twitter account, Google completed the implementation of end-to-end encryption in the RCS group chats for Open Beta users.
According to what the company mentioned, users who have said beta version will have the possibility of seeing in their chats a notification with a lock, which states: “This chat is now end-to-end encrypted.”
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