In lengthy blog post on Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed a plan to bring end-to-end encryption to Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram messaging services – confirming previous reports that the firm planned to stitch the three together.

The Facebook boss acknowledged the site’s reputation, which has been tarnished in recent years as a result of its lax-approach to the protection of personal information, and promised to rebuild its services on the principle of privacy.

Zuckerberg also said he’s also working to ensure your online activity won’t come back to haunt you later in life. 

I believe the future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure and their messages and content won’t stick around forever,’ Zuckerberg wrote in the March 6 post. 

‘This is the future I hope we will help bring about.’

The Facebook CEO’s post detailing his ‘privacy-focused vision’ comes just days after a tweet from Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge revealed the site allows users to search for specific profiles using phone numbers provided for two-factor authentication.

And, just a week prior, a Wall Street Journal investigation revealed Facebook has been collecting ‘highly sensitive information’ from at least a dozen apps without users’ consent.

In perhaps its best-known privacy scandal, Facebook came under fire in 2018 when it was revealed political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica was given access to the data of 87 million users.

Zuckerberg is now promising to apply the same privacy-focused principles it used in WhatsApp to all of its services moving forward.

In a multi-year plan, Zuckerberg says Facebook will merge its messaging services – WhatsApp, Instagram Direct, and Facebook Messenger – in a way that allows users to communicate across all three apps.

All will be equipped with end-to-end encryption to keep out other people, including ‘hackers, criminals, over-reaching governments, or even the people operating the services they’re using,’ from seeing their private communications.

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Jenner, 21, was finally given the title after months of speculation on Tuesday by Forbes as it unveiled its annual billionaires list. 

At 21, she is both the youngest self-made billionaire and the youngest billionaire on Forbes’ ‘young billionaires’ list. 

Jenner has amassed a personal net worth of $1billion through her wildly successful range of make-up, Kylie Cosmetics. 

Jenner is the youngest in her famous, reality TV family and the first to hit the billion dollar landmark. 

She was surprised by the success of her cosmetics company which was only founded in 2015 but is now worth an estimated $900million. 

Jenner, who owns a 100 percent stake in it, has separate income from endorsements and her family’s reality TV show. She also owns an impressive portfolio of real estate. That’s a nice pat on the back  Kylie Jenner on becoming the world’s youngest self-made billionaire   

‘I didn’t expect anything. I did not foresee the future. But [the recognition] feels really good. 

‘That’s a nice pat on the back,’ Jenner told Forbes. 

She credits her success to her enormous social media following which ensured her customer base before she made her first product. 

‘It’s the power of social media. I had such a strong reach before I was able to start anything,’ she said, adding that she sees the company going ‘very far’. 

‘I see [Kylie Cosmetics] going very far. I work really hard,’ she said. 

Her mother Kris would not rule out that she may sell the company in the future. 

‘It’s always something that we’re willing to explore,’ she said. 

Only two of the star’s sisters congratulated her success. Kendall, her closest in age, posted on Twitter and Instagram in support of her whereas Kim tweeted her pride.  

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Only two of Kylie’s famous sisters congratulated her on social media 

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Jenner was also congratulated by her boyfriend and the father of her child, Travis Scott 

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (left) was the youngest self-made billionaire when in 2008 when he was 23. Also on this year’s list is Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel (right with his wife Miranda Kerr). At 28, he has a fortune of $2.1billion and is the richest of the young, self-made billionaires 

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