Musk stress privacy: No access unless under threat of gun to my head.
Elon Musk has revealed plans to add Whatsapp features to Twitter after publicly announcing his plans to bring encrypted messages to the platform.
These plans were revealed during a meeting with remaining employees at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco.
During the meeting, CEO Musk displayed a presentation titled ‘Twitter 2.0,’ which contained plans and frameworks for new microblogging platform features.
During the meeting, Musk told employees that the company should begin working on encrypted direct messages, like Whatsapp features within direct messages.
Musk ensured that the encrypted chat feature provides maximum privacy to Twitter users, demonstrating his commitment to consumer privacy.
“We want users to be able to communicate without worrying about their privacy, or about a data breach at Twitter exposing all of their direct messages on the web, or about someone at Twitter spying on their DMs.” “Obviously, that’s not going to be cool, and it’s happened before,” the CEO said as he described his vision.
The CEO went on to say that no one from Twitter should be able to access users’ direct messages even if a gun was held to their head.
“If someone has a gun to my head, I shouldn’t be able to look at anyone’s DMs,” Musk said.
Experts believe Musk’s decision to include encrypted messages is correct. Twitter will be able to easily avoid past instances where several chats between users and businesses were leaked on the internet with the planned features in place.
