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Meta is dropping encrypted messages from Instagram DMs from 8 May. This means that your all private conversations will be readable by Meta, shareable with advertisers, and subpoenable by courts. Privacy should be a default. Sign our petition. www.mozillafoundation.org/petitions/ke...

mozillafoundation.orgTell Meta: Keep Encryption for Instagram MessagesMeta has quietly said it will end support for encrypted messaging on Instagram in a matter of weeks. Encryption helps ensure that what your messages stay between you and the person with whom you're co...

13/3/26, 9:38 pm169 reposts224 likes

fry69

@fry69.dev

14 Mar

Useful thread about end to end encryption (E2EE) in Instagram and what that entails, especially for user experience ->

Jon Millican@jonmillican.bsky.social

I've seen a lot of chatter today about Instagram ending support for optional End-to-End Encrypted DMs. I helped to lead on cryptography and privacy for E2EE in Messenger and Instagram for many years, until I left around 10 months ago, so it's disappointing to see it being removed from Instagram.

fry69

@fry69.dev

13 Mar

Just want to point out that DMs here on Bluesky are also currently not encrypted, stored in plain text in Bluesky's infrastructure (AppView) and can be subpoenaed. Use @germnetwork.com or @signal.org or something similar for sensitive communication.