Instagram reportedly working on audio rooms feature, end-to-end encryption
- By Web Desk -
- Mar 09, 2021
Days after launching live rooms for Instagram, the facebook-owned company is reportedly working on a new feature dubbed audio rooms, inspired by the popular audio-based chat application Clubhouse.
Apart from the audio rooms feature, another image tweeted by him shows that the Facebook-owned app could be working on end-to-end encryption for some of its chats.
#Instagram is working on end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) chats 👀 pic.twitter.com/XSb4DqHtU6
— Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) March 6, 2021
The development was reported by App Researcher Alessandro Paluzzi who shared screenshots of the under-development Instagram feature on their Twitter account.
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#Instagram is working on audio rooms 👀 pic.twitter.com/5TI6YzLi9A
— Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) March 6, 2021
What is end-to-end encryption?
The end-to-end encryption essentially encrypts messages from the sender and decrypts them to the receiver, to avoid snooping in between.
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The encryption feature is already available on another Facebook-owned platform WhatsApp.