Here's what end-to-end encryption protects—and what it doesn't.

Encryption means your messages are private, but they may still not be entirely safe.

A lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm ‘can access virtually all’ private communications, a claim the company has denied ...

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 ...

Google has expanded Gmail's end-to-end encryption for Workspace users to iOS and Android, allowing mobile users to compose and read encrypted messages natively within the Gmail app for the first time.

A planned update to Meta's privacy policy on Dec. 16, 2025, will give it permission to read all direct messages sent by its users and use the data to train its generative AI. Rating: False (About this ...