Facebook will now allow for PGP-encrypted emails, the site announced today. The feature will affect the standard account maintenance emails Facebook currently sends, alerting users to private messages, password changes, and other account notifications. Since some of those notifications may be sensitive or involve a sensitive account, encryption will ensure no one can read the content of the messages without the key. They had previously been encrypted over the network through HTTPS, but this would additionally conceal them from email services like Gmail and Yahoo, which regularly scan user inboxes for ad-targeting purposes.
Users who want to receive those emails in encrypted form can upload a public key in the Contact Info section of the...
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