It comes at a time when the Government is looking at how to keep children safer from predatory social media users
The change to allow users to hide conversations will be called Chat Lock. This will remove a chat thread from the app’s regular onscreen inbox and place it into a new, password-protected folder.
You will only be able to open the folder if you know the password or through a biometric such as facial recognition or a fingerprint reading. Meta described the feature as “one more layer of security”, adding that it will protect “your most intimate conversations” and hide notifications from them, even if you have notifications enabled for your general messages.
A growing list of features on the globally-used, encrypted messaging service is just the latest that puts the app at odds with the UK Government’s online safety bill. Meta and other companies have criticised the bill alongside other companies.The UK Government’s online safety bill will retain privacy while improving protections for children’s safety. Charities including the NSPCC support the bill, the Government added.
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