Instagram will stop supporting end-to-end encryption in May, and affected messages may need to be downloaded beforehand.

Pulling the plug on privacy?

Meta will soon end Instagram’s end-to-end encrypted chats, citing low adoption and directing users to export affected messages.

As of last week, Google Messages indicated that Android-iPhone RCS conversations don’t support end-to-end encryption with a lock icon that features a slash. This is because Google Messages uses its ...

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End-to-end encryption is a way of sending messages to the intended recipients without anyone else, including tech companies, ...

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