The DMA requires that Meta “should be able to enable interoperability with other services inside three months of receiving a request,” but based on the blog post, actually turning it on for public use could take longer than that. The requirements also only mandate support for one-on-one chats and sharing files like images, videos, or voice messages “in yr one” of the brand new regulation before they expand over time to incorporate group chats and calls.
Meta says third-party providers could have to sign an agreement to interoperate with Messenger and WhatsApp before the corporate will work with them to implement it. The company asks that other providers use WhatsApp’s Signal protocol for encryption but says it is going to accept others if it finds they meet the identical security standards.
The company guarantees that E2EE chats shall be secure in transit, whether the opposite provider uses Signal or not. However, Meta won’t guarantee that the apps on the receiving end of WhatsApp and Messenger users’ chats won’t do anything unsavory.
