If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of Facebook account holders who use the network’s mobile app and Facebook Messenger platform to communicate on a daily basis, have you ever stopped to wonder just how secure your transmissions are? Facebook recently provided WhatsApp users with an additional level of security and privacy by introducing end-to-end encryption for all WhatsApp communications across all platforms, and now, according to a new report, it looks as though the company could be planning on bringing the same level of privacy to Facebook Messenger.

Want to enable encryption on your iPhone, iPad or Android device? We show you how to encrypt your mobile devices in a detailed step by step guide below.

All of your WhatsApp messages will now have end-to-end encryption on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Web. Here are the details on it.

California has had a bill introduced into legislation that any smartphone built on or after January 1st 2017 and sold in California must be able to be decrypted by the manufacturer of that device, or the company that makes its operating system.