The dogfood version of the recently updated app shows multiple references to encryption for RCS, the feature-rich successor to SMS messaging.
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Facebook’s new Tuned chat app lets couples keep their mush private
If you’re OK with Facebook getting your phone number and storing your love notes, photos, shared daily diary and more, then Tune away, baes.
Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’
The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.
Switch to Signal for encrypted messaging, EC tells staff
Formerly preferred diplomatic app WhatsApp apparently isn’t up to snuff.
Facebook encrypted messaging will ‘create hiding places for child abuse’
Child safety groups penned an open letter to Facebook, urging a delay on encrypted messaging until sufficient safeguards are in place.
Facebook refuses to break end-to-end encryption
Congress on Tuesday told Facebook it must put backdoors into its end-to-end encryption, or it’ll be forced to.
Facebook to tie together WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger
Should we cheer for WhatsApp-esque, end-to-end encryption everywhere, or tremble at creeping Facebookism?
258,000 encrypted IronChat phone messages cracked by police
They expect to cuff hundreds of criminals who used the pricey phones, which were sold with the crypto app preinstalled.
Sent a photo to the wrong person? Facebook Messenger to let you unsend it
Think fast! You’ll only have up to 10 minutes to hit unsend: a lot stingier than the hour afforded by WhatsApp.
WhatsApp ‘martinelli’ warning is a hoax, don’t forward it
A WhatsApp chain letter is warning of a malware-packing video called “martinelli”, and selling its lie with a grain of truth.