Instagram has enabled new security features for your private messages. Photo: AFP
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, recommends that to Instagram users don’t take screenshots of messages in chats with other Internet users. The founder of Facebook has long insisted that users should protect the privacy of your conversations on the social network of photos and videos.
End-to-end encryption, which has been available on WhatsApp for a long time, increases security and guarantees the privacy of the messages we exchange with other users.
now, Instagram and Facebook Messenger they released an update that includes this tool that ensures no one else can read the conversation. Another new one is that users will be able to configure messages so that they disappear after a while.
Faced with this new security measure, Zuckerberg warned users of his platforms not to take screenshots of those messages that are configured to be deleted later. The application sends a warning notification that someone has captured the conversation.
Through his Facebook profile, the CEO announced that there is “a new update for end-to-end encrypted Messenger chats so you can receive a notification if someone takes a screenshot of a message that’s gone.”
Now, Instagram will notify anyone who takes a screenshot of private messages. Photo: Shutterstock
Using a screenshot of a conversation with his wife Priscilla Chan as an example, Zuckerberg commented that “we also add GIFs, stickers and reactions to encrypted chats.” Upgrade with end-to-end encryption and configuration temporary messages They were launched in the United States and are expected to be released in other markets soon.
Instagram will only alert when someone takes screenshots of private conversations, ie Direct Instagram, but it will not notify when someone screenshots Stories or posts directly. This feature that improves our privacy on Meta platforms became popular years ago thanks to the application of Snapchatwarning you about screenshots in the same chat.
NFTs are finally coming to Instagram
The Bored Yacht Club is a collection of NFTs. Image of OpenSea.
As part of the announcements, Mark Zuckerberg stressed that starting this week they will begin testing digital collectibles on Instagram, which will allow a small group of creators and collectors to publish NFTs that they made or bought on their social network. At this time, only US users can access this feature.
The NFTs displayed in the app will receive a special “gloss” visual treatment and will both associate the creator and owner of the NFT for the content.
At launch, the supported blockchains will be Ethereum and Polygon, close to Flow and Solana, to safeguard the value of these digital assets.
Additionally, supported third-party wallets will be included for use at launch Rainbow, MetaMask and Trust Walletwith Coinbase, Dapper, and Phantom coming soon.
There is no charge to post or share a digital collectible on Instagram. In the future, they will also deploy digital collectibles on facebook and will allow people to display and share them as augmented reality stickers on Instagram Stories. Of course, they warn that this test is not yet available in Latin America.
With information from La Vanguardia.
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