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“Signal to Enable Interoperability Between WhatsApp and Messenger for DMA Compliance”

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Meta today is offering more details about how it plans to make its messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger, interoperable with third-party messaging services, as required by the new EU law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA). In addition, Meta now says it will ask third parties to use the Signal protocol, though it may make exceptions to this in the future. Meta’s messaging clients will download the encrypted media from the third-party messaging servers using a Meta proxy device, it notes. But that solution will require third parties to agree to additional protections to keep Meta’s users safe from spam and scams. In addition, Meta says that third-party providers will need to sign an agreement with Meta or WhatsApp before it will enable interoperability.