Over the next several months, we’re going to carefully expand this requirement globally. What we’ve seen so far is encouraging: in early testing, simplifying our enrollments flows, improving customer support, and mandating Facebook Protect brought adoption rates to over 90 percent in one month for these groups. However, we believe this is an important step forward for these highly targeted communities.
We know that there will always be a small subset of users that won’t immediately enroll, for example those that happen to be less active on our platform at the time of a given mandate. We’re also starting to require that they use it. With Facebook Protect, we worked to make enrollment and use of two-factor authentication as frictionless as possible for these groups of people by providing better user experience and support. However, this important feature has been historically underutilized across the internet - even by people that are more likely to be targeted by malicious hackers, such as journalists, activists, political candidates and others. Right now, anyone can enroll in two-factor authentication and everyone should. Two-factor authentication - particularly by using third-party authentication apps - significantly improves the security of your online accounts. Many banks in Europe have chosen Visa’s solution to support Two-factor authentication called Visa Secure. If you do, you’ll be guided through this process. Mandating Protections For Most Targeted People The new security measures will assess each online transaction and decide if you will need to take an extra step at checkout. No action is required unless you get a notification on Facebook that you’re eligible to enroll. We are on track to expand the program to more than 50 countries by the end of the year, including the United States, India, and Portugal. Since then, more than 1.5 million accounts have enabled Facebook Protect, and of those, nearly 950K accounts newly enrolled in two-factor authentication.
We began our global expansion in September of this year. We first tested Facebook Protect in 2018 and expanded it ahead of the 2020 US election. Unfortunately this also means that they are highly targeted by bad actors.įacebook Protect helps these groups of people adopt stronger account security protections, like two-factor authentication, and monitors for potential hacking threats. They enable democratic elections, hold governments and organizations accountable, and defend human rights around the world. These people are at the center of critical communities for public debate. We’re also making it easier for these groups of people to set up two-factor authentication.Īs part of our ongoing improvements to security, we’re expanding Facebook Protect, a program designed for people that are likely to be highly targeted by malicious hackers, including human rights defenders, journalists, and government officials.No action is required unless you’re prompted to enroll.We’re expanding Facebook Protect, our security program for groups of people that are more likely to be targeted by malicious hackers, such as human rights defenders, journalists, and government officials.
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