Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8(macrumors.com) |
Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8(macrumors.com) |
I wonder what it's like being a spokesperson for a company (or administration) where everyone including yourself knows your statements are misleading at best.
Whereas it seems this might be a situation where the situation is actually inverse: being paid enough to not care.
Americans can’t even agree on persecuting pedophiles, what makes you think they can agree on a clear loss of privacy for the normies that only people in power will only benefit from?
It’s all exhausting
It also feels like the wide-scale desperate adoption of AI has weakened claims about the essential nature of privacy, now that everyone has demonstrated that they are happy to feed their innermost thoughts, secrets, personal conflicts, code, medical records, legal documents, etc. into cloud AI platforms.
Avoiding E2EE is less PR hassle to Meta than having it.
As a supporter, I must admit the E2EE interest groups have not had the upper hand recently (if ever)
That grew into the Messenger mobile app. They eventually added private messaging, but it was never popular/defaulted because users expected the chat moles on facebook.com to be able to show the same messages as the mobile app. If facebook.com can't read your messages, it can't show them there.
There is no reason for unencrypted messaging.
This is a fundamental market failure.
It is only through bundling these messaging services with other services + platform dominance that unencrypted messaging still lives.
Unencrypted messaging is easier and more convenient, just login from anywhere and done. So there are actual technical and rational reasons to choose against e2e.
This is why Telegram and Discord are so popular. They are popular because they work well, and part of the reason they work well is not bothering with E2EE. For instance, when you join a group chat, the server can just send you the message history (if enabled) and there's no need to negotiate keys with every other participant. There no "joining...", there is no "message will appear shortly...", you just press the button and you're in.
I've never seen an E2EE group chat that could remain stable with more than a few hundred participants. Even Matrix gives up and just makes it unencrypted at that point.
Many people do, e.g. by switching from Whatsapp to Telegram.
The market is working alright; people are (uninformedly) voting with their wallets (or rather, their personal data).
- just better ad targeting? (lol if so)
- policing accounts for various possible infractions?
- training data for ML models?
https://lifehacker.com/tech/meta-is-not-scraping-dms-to-trai...
One can’t say they didn’t know or consent to their group chat info being used for training data if there’s no reason to assume your chat data is private
> The best thing you can do to preserve your privacy and security with your Meta messages is to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) whenever possible. WhatsApp has E2EE built-in, and Meta has automatically started rolling it out for Messenger, but you might need to manually start an E2EE chat for existing conversations in the app. The same goes for Instagram: Meta offers E2EE, but you need to enable it yourself. In either app, tap the name of the chat to check whether or not that conversation is currently E2EE.
I really don't understand what the point of the quote you're citing? Or how it goes against what I was saying?
The best thing you can do would be to use E2EE. That would be the most secure thing. It won't, however, prevent the makers of your E2EE product from reading the messages once they're unencrypted, regardless of who makes it.
Signal and Threema seem to be known for good UX and viability as everyday messengers.
There was this table: https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html
Get as many of your contacts onto Signal as you can. Disable the displaying of message text within device notifications from within the Signal app settings (for both Android and iOS).