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WhatsApp chats will soon work with other encrypted messaging apps

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Tags: whatsapp, meta, messaging, encryption, interoperability, author.matt burgess, source.wired, paywall
https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-interoperability-messaging/

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Authors
Matt Burgess, Simon Hill, Makena Kelly, Joel Khalili, Alistair Charlton, Andy Greenberg, Dhruv Mehrotra, Kate O'Flaherty, Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica
Published
Feb 6 2024
Word count
1555 words

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    For about the past two years, WhatsApp has been building a way for other messaging apps to plug themselves into its service and let people chat across apps—all without breaking the end-to-end encryption it uses to protect the privacy and security of people’s messages. The move is the first time the chat app has opened itself up this way, and it potentially offers greater competition.

    It isn’t a shift entirely of WhatsApp’s own making. In September, European, lawmakers designated WhatsApp parent Meta as one of six influential “gatekeeer” companies under its sweeping Digital Markets Act, giving it six months to open its walled garden to others. With just a few weeks to go before that time is up, WhatsApp is detailing how its interoperability with other apps may work.

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