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Facebook Now Encrypts Emails Sent To Users

The new email encryption will safeguard the contents from email service providers who constantly search for contents.

 

Facebook has recently announced that the mails which are being sent to users regarding various alerts shall be encrypted from here-on.

We all have been receiving emails from Facebook alerting about private messages, password changes, friend requests and other account notifications. But, now, with the latest announcement by the social media giant, it is pretty clear that users need to type in a key to access the content of the email.

To add in more, what Facebook is aiming at with this new email encryption is to safeguard the content from email service providers like Gmail and Yahoo who continuously scan inboxes.

However, now, with this new email encryption, they won't be able to read the content of that message.

According to the official announcement by the company, it is gradually rolling out an experimental new feature that enables people to add OpenPGP public keys to their profile.

It is worth noting that by adding these keys, users can use them to end-to-end encrypt notification emails sent from Facebook to your preferred email accounts.

Additionally, users can also share their "OpenPGP keys" from their profile which eventually allow other users to send encrypted emails.

With this new step being taken by the company to enhance the security of its users, we are still not pretty sure whether users take this move positively or they think this as an extra boring procedure like how many people thought when recently Google made two pages for login!


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