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In a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr, Facebook said it will not weaken the end-to-end encryption of its messaging applications – Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp – for giving it access to security agencies.

This happened after the United States Congress required technology companies, including Apple and Facebook, to collaborate with security agencies, since otherwise, Congress could pass legislation to regulate messaging encryption.

"It is simply impossible to create a backdoor for a single purpose and hope that others do not try to open it," wrote Will Cathcart, director of WhatsApp, and Stan Chudnovsky, product director for Facebook Messenger in the letter to Barr. "People’s private messages will be less secure and the winners will be the ones looking to take advantage of security weaknesses."

This communication was given in response to the letter that Barr sent in October criticizing encryption in messaging applications, arguing that this makes criminal investigations difficult. However, both technology companies and privacy advocates have supported encryption as it is a way to protect users from hackers and authoritarian governments.

On March 6, 2019, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post that end-to-end encryption in its messaging applications is one of the central issues for the company and indicated that it is a "powerful privacy tool. , but that included the privacy of people who did bad things. "

In that same publication, Zuckerberg said he was committed to working with security agencies and that the company worked to improve the ability to identify and stop bad actors, even when they can't see the content of their messages. The manager indicated that there is still much to do in terms of security.

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A few weeks after its launch on Android, Google Maps incognito mode is now also available on iOS. Activating it prevents the application from storing the places you are looking for or visiting, preventing them from being reflected in your search, navigation and location histories, in your phone notifications or in the phones of the people with whom you share location.

To use incognito mode:

1. Make sure you have the latest version of Google Maps installed, either in Google Play wave App Store.
2. Open the "Explore" tab and click on the icon your photo in the upper right corner of the app.
3. Touch "Activate incognito mode".

Incognito mode will remain active even if you close Google Maps. To deactivate it, press on the glasses and the hat in the upper right corner of the screen and touch “Deactivate incognito mode”. It works just like the incognito mode of Google Chrome with which we are most familiar.

Like occurs in Google Chrome, activating Google Maps incognito mode will not prevent your internet provider or the applications you have given location permissions from getting your moves. Technically, Google will also know where you are, but it will not store that data or use it to personalize your Google Maps experience. Normally, Google uses that data to show more relevant results and general information such as traffic, available parking and schedules with greater influx.

If what you want is to delete a series of locations that you have searched or visited in the past, you can now delete them in batch, both in “Your chronology” and in the visited sites tab. You can also deactivate your location history permanently by going to Settings> Location history and selecting “Pause location history”.