Meta’s Plans for E2EE Messaging Interop for WhatsApp and Messenger
Engineering at Meta:
To comply with a new EU law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which
comes into force on March 7th, we’ve made major changes to
WhatsApp and Messenger to enable interoperability with third-party
messaging services. […]
To interoperate, third-party providers will sign an agreement with
Messenger and/or WhatsApp and we’ll work together to enable
interoperability. Today we’ll publish the WhatsApp Reference Offer
for third-party providers which will outline what will be required
to interoperate with the service. The Reference Offer for
Messenger will follow in due course. […]
In order to maximize user security, we would prefer third-party
providers to use the Signal Protocol. Since this has to work for
everyone however, we will allow third-party providers to use a
compatible protocol if they are able to demonstrate it offers the
same security guarantees as Signal.
Unclear to me whether these third-party providers will, somehow, only function in the EU, or if Meta is opening this up worldwide. Also unclear to me is who benefits from this?
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Engineering at Meta:
To comply with a new EU law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which
comes into force on March 7th, we’ve made major changes to
WhatsApp and Messenger to enable interoperability with third-party
messaging services. […]
To interoperate, third-party providers will sign an agreement with
Messenger and/or WhatsApp and we’ll work together to enable
interoperability. Today we’ll publish the WhatsApp Reference Offer
for third-party providers which will outline what will be required
to interoperate with the service. The Reference Offer for
Messenger will follow in due course. […]
In order to maximize user security, we would prefer third-party
providers to use the Signal Protocol. Since this has to work for
everyone however, we will allow third-party providers to use a
compatible protocol if they are able to demonstrate it offers the
same security guarantees as Signal.
Unclear to me whether these third-party providers will, somehow, only function in the EU, or if Meta is opening this up worldwide. Also unclear to me is who benefits from this?