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Facebook’s new move at making email more secure

Social network Facebook is rolling out a feature to further bolster the security of its email service.
 
Announcing this on its official blog, FB said the feature had been brought in “to enhance the privacy of this email Content.” The encryption enables people to add OpenPGP public keys to their profile; these keys can be used to “end-to-end” encrypt notification emails sent from Facebook to a users’ preferred email accounts. People may also choose to share OpenPGP keys from their profile, with or without enabling encrypted notifications.
The post furthe said: People also receive information from us over channels such as email. Whilst Facebook seeks to secure connections to your email provider with TLS, the stored content of those messages may be accessible as plaintext (with attachments) to anyone who accesses your email provider or email account.

Facebook boosts notification email security with OpenPGP encryption – PCWorld

http://news.google.com  Jun 01, 2015

On Monday, Facebook announced that you can now add an OpenPGP key to your Facebook profile. When you do this, Facebook will also give you the option to enable encryption …

 

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Facebook can now send you encrypted emails – The Verge

http://news.google.com Jun 01, 2015 

Facebook will now allow for PGP-encrypted emails, the site announced today. The feature will affect the standard account maintenance emails Facebook currently sends, alerting users to private …

 

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Facebook just made a move that will infuriate law enforcement – Business Insider

http://news.google.com Jun 01, 2015 

Facebook has announced it is letting users add encryption keys to their profiles and opt in to have notification emails sent in an encrypted format. The news …

 

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