Last year, Facebook-parent Meta effectively pushed back its timetable for rolling out end-to-end encryption by default across its various social platforms, with an executive saying the ...

Imagine opening your front door wide and inviting the world to listen in on your most private conversations. Unthinkable, right? Yet, in the digital realm, people inadvertently leave doors ajar, ...

WhatsApp is a popular messaging platform with roughly 3 billion globally active users. With Meta AI already in the equation, WhatsApp users have raised questions about how the company handles their ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. J.R. Whalen: Here's your Money Briefing for Friday, September 27th. I'm J.R.

End-to-end encryption is a way to keep messages private. It’s sometimes used by apps, which basically turn those messages into unintelligible chunks of data as soon as a user hits “Send.” The idea is ...

Signal is a messaging app that uses end-to-end encryption to keep your messages private. When you send a message on Signal, the only people who can see it are the recipients. You can use the Signal ...

If you’ve ever opened a group chat on WhatsApp and felt a knot in your stomach at the sight of endless unread messages, help is at hand. Meta-owned WhatsApp has just announced Private Message ...

This is a bit blown out of proportion. From the article, the fundamental weakness is this: "The loophole in WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is simple: the recipient of any WhatsApp message can flag ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. J.R. Whalen: Here's your Money Briefing for Friday, September 27th. I'm J.R.