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Google Messages Gets Encrypted Group Messaging

The messages you send between more than a single other person should be private, right? I'm talking about encryption, and the idea is that no one should be able to read your messages other than the people you are sending them to. With Google Messages, the...
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Google Messages Group Chats to Get Encryption

As a part of the Google I/O keynote, Google talked a bit about its Messages app and how many people are using RCS through it, before pitching (once again) to Apple that it should think about implementing the messaging technology, without naming them. What they...
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Google Fi Gets End-to-End Encrypted Calls

Need that extra bit of privacy on your calls? Google Fi to the rescue. This week, Google announced that when you place calls on Google Fi to another Android phone, those calls will automatically be end-to-end encrypted. That way, your conversations stay only...
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WhatsApp Adds End-to-End Encryption for Backups

WhatsApp has had end-to-end encryption for all of the messages you send for a solid 5 years now, as long as those messages are only stored on your device. For those who want backups of those chats to store on Google Drive or iCloud, that same encryption hasn't...

End-to-End Encryption Exits Beta for Google Messages

Google introduced end-to-end encryption for one-on-one conversations in beta inside the Messages app last November. This week, the feature has apparently exited beta, available to all inside of the app via the Chat Features menu. There's no need to do anything...
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On Encryption, Apple, the FBI, and You

I may be an outlier in a world full of tech talking heads, many of which who really, really love to listen to themselves talk, but I don't have a hot take on the current situation involving Apple, the FBI, encryption, what other players in tech have or have...