New concerns when Facebook unites its messaging applications

A few days ago, Facebook announced that it planned to incorporate some of its most popular messaging applications, which allowed users of these applications to cross-message.And according to our predictions, some United States lawmakers immediately expressed dissatisfaction about this.

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Specifically, last Friday, the New York Times reported that CEO Mark Zuckerberg is urging his team to complete three messaging applications - Facebook's big chat, Messenger, WhatsApp. and Instagram, to allow these applications to cross-interact with each other.This change means that users of an application will be able to message users of another application and it will link existing Facebook-owned products closer together, as an ecosystem. wide.

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However, this change comes after Facebook has been caught in a series of serious privacy scandals and is facing severe inspection by law enforcement agencies about data handling. user data.Therefore, it is somewhat understandable that lawmakers' interest in the decision is said to be 'bringing practical benefits to users' of Facebook.

And in such a context, Facebook's interconnection messaging application has quickly raised concerns that this controversial social network may become stronger and more likely to "cause." dangerous' on a larger scale, by using its overwhelmingly overwhelming market share to crush competitors, and more importantly market orientation the way they want.

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California Democrat Ro Khanna is one of the first politicians to comment on Facebook's new decision.He argued that the move raised concerns about unfair competition, which could result in 'big fish swallowing' as Facebook bought Instagram and WhatsApp in 2012 and 2014.

"This is why we need to take a closer look at Facebook's acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp, which is now clearly like a merger that may violate antitrust laws. How the world will be different if Facebook has to compete with Instagram and WhatsApp, which will encourage real competition and promote respect for privacy and ultimately benefit people. consumption, "said Ro Khanna on Twitter.

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In an emailed statement, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, a man who is famous for always expressing his opinion frankly about issues, technology policy also shared that he was particularly concerned. about privacy and data data protection if this new Facebook plan is deployed.In the letter to the famous news website Business Insider, he wrote:

"I have a lot of questions about how Facebook plans to incorporate these services. Assuming this change undermines WhatsApp's security and encryption capabilities, it will be a major blow. If you have a small amount of data through this change to get more personal information from users for profit purposes, then that's a reason. it is legitimate for us to worry about the way technology corporations use user data, and legislators not only in the United States, but around the world also need strong measures. more in ensuring user rights'.

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After all, comments that are somewhat 'formal' may not affect Facebook's decision much.However, with the increasing concern for Internet privacy issues, draft laws aiming to tighten the management of social network space, Facebook cannot ignore the warnings of the Internet. Politicians.

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According to the New York Times report, Facebook plans to use terminal encryption on all three applications after the merger is completed.It is unclear how it will work in practice and Facebook spokesperson Jennifer Hakes also refused to provide any more information besides a short statement like this:

'We want to build the best messaging experience, chat possible for users, and importantly, the fast, simple, reliable and especially privacy will be placed on Facebook by Facebook. head.These applications will also be end-to-end encrypted so that login and use of new features is more synchronized and easier. '

Looking at them, criticism is a sign of the great skepticism that Facebook currently faces from legislators, politicians, especially users, and the difficult struggle they have. will have to overcome in the near future is to convince people that any change that Facebook aims to have the greatest purpose is to benefit the user.

However, not everyone has pessimistic thoughts about the potential consequences of this change.Alex Stamos, Facebook's former chief security officer, praised that if Facebook implemented end-to-end encryption, it would be "the most powerful enhancement of privacy on community application platforms in the history of technology world, and we should support ideas and demands for transparency in information security - privacy ".

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