New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here’s how that will work.

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NEW: WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It’s revealed some more details on how that will work.

— Apps will need to sign an agreement with Meta, then connect to its servers.

— Meta wants people to use the Signal Protocol, but also says other encryption protocols can be used if they can meet WhatsApp’s standards

— WhatsApp has been testing with Matrix in recent months, although nothing is agreed yet. Swiss app Threema says it won’t become interoperable

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Also to add a very important question: will Facebook then be able to harvest all of our Signal metadata like they do for WhatsApp?

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Hopefully the opposite is true. There’e end-to-end encryption and if the client isn’t written by meta, then meta can’t intercept after decryption.

      Being able to use meta’s chat platform without any of their code being executable on your device is a big improvement. They can’t scrape your contacts and data at all.