Facebook, Google and Snapchat To Up their Security Game

The social networking websites have decided to provide even stronger security platform to its customers amid Apple and FBI's battle.

Caught in a battle between Apple, Inc. the FBI and the US Government over encryption, a number of technology companies have decided to increase security on their platform. These technology companies include, Google, Snapchat as well as Facebook Inc.

Facebook Inc. wants its users to feel as secure as possible; the social media network already encrypts its WhatsApp, instant-messaging app’s messaging but it is now working on applying encryption to the voice calls as well as group messaged. As per a report by The Guardian that was published on Monday, the social networking website is also working on increasing the security on its Messenger chat tool. The service presently has over 1 billion users, and it wants to make sure that they are on a network on which they feel safe and have their photos, videos and call private.

Another social media app, Snapchat, which is a video messaging app, is also working on building an enhanced security feature for the application, as per the report by The Guardian who cited two people close to the matter. On the other hand, all of these tech giants have signed a ‘friend of the court’ brief showing support for Apple Inc., as the iPhone maker fights a battle with the government authorities over accessing data on a terrorist iPhone that was involved in the San Bernardino attack.

Additionally, Google is also working on making its platform more secure, for now, its investigating on whether encryption can be applied to other products that the search engine giant has been using as part of its End to End Project. Back in 2014, Google has revealed that it was working on its End to End email encryption Project with one of the oldest search engine websites on the internet, Yahoo! Inc. however they were constantly running into obstacles while implementing it.

Facebook is looking at making its instant messaging app, WhatsApp more secure as it is likely to be a part of a wiretapping lawsuit. This case could be quite similar to that of Apple Inc. and the FBI as the Federal Bureau would force the social networking platform for decrypt the messages or even the voice calls to disclose the communication that might have took place between the terrorists. Last month, as part of a drug investigation a Facebook executive was jailed because he failed to supply certain information regarding the instant messaging app to the officials.

Furthermore, despite of being in an intense argument with the Federal officials, Apple Inc. is planning on taken drastic measures to develop an even stronger security system for its iPhones. In the upcoming models, it is safe to say that even the tech organization itself will not be break down the security on the future iPhones.