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Anna Desmarais

Private Instagram messages will no longer be encrypted, Meta says

Meta will stop end-to-end encryption for private messages on Instagram, after criticism from law enforcement and child protection groups who warned that private chats make it harder to protect children online.

End-to-end encryption is a method of sending messages that only the intended recipients can read, meaning that neither the platform nor the company’s servers, nor outside hackers, can view messages or listen to calls.

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