WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private

WhatsApp said on Wednesday it is launching an AI chat function known as Incognito Chat that is built to allow users to converse privately with Meta AI—such that Meta itself cannot access the questions or answers. The feature is based on WhatsApp’s Private Processing scheme, which debuted a year ago and already underlies WhatsApp’s existing … Read more

Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI

Moxie Marlinspike, the privacy advocate who created the secure communications app Signal and its widely used open source encryption protocol, said this week that his privacy-focused AI platform, conferwill start incorporating its technology into Meta’s AI systems. Every day, billions of chat messages sent through Signal, Meta’s WhatsApp, and Apple’s Messages are protected by end-to-end … Read more