Facebook plans for broader measures to enhance its security measures. The social media platform expanded test of encryption on its Messenger platform, moving ahead with a controversial plan for enhanced security that regulators and government officials warn will aid criminals.

Facebook’s top executives decided to describe the plans at a Lisbon tech conference, following  complaints by top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia that Facebook’s intention to encrypt messaging on all its platforms would put child sex predators and pornographers beyond detection.

Facebook messaging privacy chief Jay Sullivan and other executives said the company, supported by civil rights groups and many technology experts, will continue to work toward the changeover, while more carefully scrutinizing the data that it does collect.

Sullivan plans to call attention to a little-publicized option for end-to-end encryption that already exists on Messenger, hoping that increased usage will give the company more data to craft additional safety measures before it makes private chats the default setting.

 “This is a good test bed for us,” Sullivan said. “It’s part of the overarching direction.”

The company will post more on its pages for users about how Secret Conversations function. The feature has been available since 2016 but is not easily discoverable by users and takes extra clicks to activate.

Certain Messenger accounts are not linked directly to Facebook profiles. The company ‘s on a search hunt to find out those accounts and to ban those accounts. The Facebook also demands more information regarding the account holder so that they can take action against the trouble makers.   

Hereafter as a part of fool proof security measures the company will send reminders to users to report unwanted contacts and inviting recipients of unwanted content to send plain-text versions of the chats to Facebook to ban senders.