Facebook is to use PGP encryption?

[MightyStorm]

Users can now request all notifications and sensitive emails to be encrypted using Facebook’s publicly posted PGP key.

Sorry, put a wrong link when posting initially. Now it should work fine.

[favdesu]

Users can now request all notifications and sensitive emails to be encrypted using Facebook’s publicly posted PGP key.

does facebook have your private key? In this case, this announcement it worthless.

[xmaxbit]

Link given by you leads to nowhere . Are you sure about the OP ?

[TheButterZone]

Users can now request all notifications and sensitive emails to be encrypted using Facebook’s publicly posted PGP key.

does facebook have your private key? In this case, this announcement it worthless.

LOL. No. You put in your public key block, they send you an encrypted email to confirm, hopefully you easily decrypt it with Enigmail (or another OpenPGP email app/plugin/etc), and click the confirmation link inside, IIRC.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/01/facebook-introduces-pgp-encryption-for-sensitive-emails
https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/securing-email-communications-from-facebook/1611941762379302

[MightyStorm]

Link given by you leads to nowhere . Are you sure about the OP ?

My bad, fixed the link.