Meta is killing end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs soon

https://9to5google.com/2026/03/13/meta-is-killing-end-to-end-encryption-for-instagram-dms-soon/

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Willoughby@piefed.world · 25 pts · 160d

Meta to stop pretending your messages were ever encrypted-

amzd@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 160d

Around 99% of all chat reports sent to police in Europe come from a single US corporation: Meta. US tech giants are acting as private auxiliary police forces—without any effective European oversight.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-chat-control-vote-in-the-eu-parliament-meps-vote-to-end-untargeted-mass-scanning-of-private-chats/

Curious coincidence that when it seems to become illegal to scan private chats they make their chats less private

Sunshine@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 160d (1 reply)

Don't want the peasant used to privacy.

Signal signups go brrr!

nodeluna@programming.dev · -2 pts · 159d

they're not going brrr as you'd think lol

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/14548

TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 2 pts · 160d

As if that would change anything.

teaHead74@programming.dev · 1 pts · 159d

Is anyone who really cares abut encryption, security, and privacy actually using Instagram and co. fr?

Smackyroon@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 160d

Surprise!