"It's unfortunate to have been associated with a company so rooted in controversy and fixated on domination. However, there is a 2015 trademark listed for Meta with the owner listed as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Namely, the low offer wouldn't cover the costs of changing our name, and we insisted on knowing the client and intent, which they did not want to disclose," he noted.Īt least two law firms were involved: One in the US that requested its trademark and domains and the other in Europe aggressively contacting trying to get "us to sell its domain registrations," he alleged.Ī live trademark was filed for Meta Company in 2016 that lists the registrant owner at Chicago, Illinois. "We refused their offer on multiple bases. Skulic said that for the last three months, Facebook lawyers have been hounding "us to sell our name to them". "But over time, I hope we are seen as a metaverse company." The name "Facebook" doesn't fully encompass everything the company does now, and is still closely linked to one product, he added. Somewhat predictably, Zuckerberg downplayed that this rebranding, the first in Facebook's 17 years of existence, is to divert a barrage of bad PR. "Facebook and its operating officers are deceitful and acting in bad faith, not only towards us, but to all of humanity."įacing intense scrutiny over users' data privacy, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg last month announced that his company will have a new name, Meta. "This message may be regarded as a public cease and desist," Skulic said. Meta Company has decided to file the necessary legal actions against Facebook. We shouldn't be surprised by these actions - from a company that continually says one thing and does another," Skulic added.
"They couldn't buy us, so they tried to bury us by force of media. On October 28, " Facebook decided to commit trademark infringement and call themselves Meta," Skulic said in a public letter. In a statement, Meta Company Founder Nate Skulic said that when Facebook failed to buy them, it aimed to "bury" the company by force of media. Updated the post with clarification from Meta about group call and chat, and backup keys.In an interesting turn of events, a Chicago-based tech firm called Meta Company is going to court against Facebook, saying the social network stole its name and "livelihood" after it rebranded its name to Meta. Last year, Meta said that it expects to roll out default end-to-end encryption protection across all its apps by 2023. In another experiment, the social media giant will let users soon unsend encrypted messages and will sync deleted messages across devices. In February, the company initially introduced the feature for all users in Ukraine and Russia.
Last year, Instagram started testing end-to-end encrypted messages through an opt-in setting. Meta also mentioned that it’s soon planning to expand its end-to-end encryption test for Instagram DMs. While the chat app always offered end-to-end encryption protection for chats, its backups were not protected, giving potential access to all the data to law enforcement.
Secure Storage currently protects only end-to-end chats - like group conversations - on iOS and Android, and is not applicable to non-encrypted chat and Messenger for web and desktop.Īfter years of criticism, WhatsApp finally started offering encrypted backup to its 2 billion-plus users last year. The company said that the backup will remain on Meta servers. Users will be able to upload their Messenger backup keys on third-party cloud services like iCloud or Google Drive by protecting them with a PIN or a code. The company is also testing the “secure storage” option for end-to-end encrypted conversations for iOS and Android. But unlike Meta’s other popular chat app WhatsApp, end-to-end encryption is not yet enabled by default for all conversations. In January, the company introduced opt-in end-to-end encryption for group chats and calls for Messenger. Meta first tested end-to-end encryption features for Messenger back in 2016 for “secret conversations.” Later it extended that protection to voice and video calls in 2021. Notably, if these messages were protected by end-to-end encryption, Meta wouldn’t have been able to hand over these details. The tech giant’s announcement comes days after it was involved in a Nebraska case of a teen facing abortion charges, where the company turned over her private Facebook Messages to cops. The social media giant said that starting this week, people included in the test will have their most frequent chats automatically protected by end-to-end encryption. Meta said today it is expanding its end-to-end encryption test to individual Messenger chats.
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