Twitter users who want to encrypt their direct messages will now finally have a shot, though there are a few conditions and constraints that may get in your way. Twitter itself announced the new ...

Apple joined the RCS bandwagon last year, giving its users the ability to exchange rich text messages with their Android counterparts. The only problem? Those messages are not encrypted, exposing them ...

The importance of end-to-end encryption of digital messages is getting new attention with the announcement that Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook will partly add the feature to its Messenger product now, ...

This week, we talk about recent developments with messaging apps Telegram and Signal, and discuss the future of encrypted messaging, surveillance capitalism, and nonprofit business models in tech.

Hooray, another win for data privacy! Up until today, people who used the Messages by Google app for texting have been able to turn on RCS, the messaging standard that the company has adopted, to ...

“Download Signal,” a career federal employee and longtime source for information told me last month. “We can talk on that. It’s not a good time right now. A lot of us are nervous.” I received similar ...

While sending an email through the Outlook desktop app, if you see an error message saying Microsoft Outlook cannot sign or encrypt this message because there are no ...

The FBI and others are now recommending that Americans send encrypted messages while texting or emailing someone. This comes after officials told NBC News that there was an unprecedented cyberattack ...

Meta has officially announced that it is ending end-to-end encryption on Instagram starting from 8 May, 2026. While the company has been promoting the essential privacy feature for years, it now says ...