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Facebook is all set to change its two-factor authentication method which people were skeptic about, as part of a wide-ranging overhaul of its privacy practices. The “people you may know” feature will no longer detect people from your phone contacts as the company have decided to replace the feature for its messaging app that required a users phone number to register as a member on Facebook.
The revelations were unfolded last year that Facebook has been using personal data obtained from two-factor authentication option to serve advertisements after it was verified by privacy advocates, calling it “deceptive and said it erodes trust “ as an essential digital for the masses.
Facebook has removed its ability to sign up for Messenger without a Facebook account recently. “If you are new to Messenger, you’ll notice that you need a Facebook account to chat with friends and close connections. We found that the vast majority of people who use Messenger already log in through facebook and we want to simplify the process. If you already use Messenger without Facebook account, no need to do anything.”
Infact all three applications, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is said to under this process, very soon, as well. However, the 3 billion people around the world communicate daily using these apps in which WhatsApp has more than 1.5 billion active monthly users, while Messenger and Instagram have over 1.3 billion.
“People should be able to use any of our apps to reach their friends, and they should be able to communicate across networks easily and securely,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in statement on his blog. They call it the new interporetability principle that requires end-to-end encryption for better communication between users.
“We want to start by making it possible for you to send messages to your contacts using any of our services, and then to extend that interoperability to SMS too.”
