Recently, Facebook complied with a search warrant to turn over private messages between a teenage girl and her mother (Opens in a new tab) who are now facing criminal charges for breaking the abortion laws in their state, Nebraska (the teen is being tried as an adult). Wade being overturned and the lingering question of how Meta will protect its users' personal information and moderate abortion content on the platform. This rings especially true in light of Roe v. The company also said it would be expanding updates and tests on Messenger's preexisting end-to-end encrypted features and other security-related features.Īnytime Meta announces privacy or security developments is noteworthy, given the social media giant's shoddy track record. On Wednesday, the messaging platform announced (Opens in a new tab) it would begin testing 'secure storage' of users' Messenger conversations on the company's server, so that users can still access their message history even if they've lost their device or want to restore message history on a new device. Facebook Messenger is testing ways to protect user privacy with a handful of new security features.

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