Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Every conversation. Every photo. Every voice message. Fed into AI," the post read. The claim was also spread on Threads (archived ...

Federal investigation found Meta can read WhatsApp messages despite encryption claims, then probe was mysteriously shut down by senior officials.

Earlier in May, the Texas Attorney General’s office sued Meta for deceiving users on the level of security offered by end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp. Meanwhile, Apple and Google just announced that ...

Meta will soon end Instagram’s end-to-end encrypted chats, citing low adoption and directing users to export affected messages. Instagram users who opted for extra privacy in their DMs may want to ...

We all love encryption. If you use Gmail in an enterprise setting, especially if your work includes sensitive information, you probably love it even more. Certain Gmail app users on iOS and Android ...

As of May 8 end-to-end encryption is no longer available on direct messages on Instagram. Meta, in announcing the policy reversal, said it had done so because few people used the feature. But this has ...

Instagram will remove end-to-end encryption for direct messages between users from May 8, 2026. When the date comes around, Meta will potentially be able to see the contents of all messages between ...

In November 2025, an Instagram post (archived) with more than 100,000 likes claimed Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, will start reading users' direct messages once it ...