the world are now using apps to send super secure messages every day. whatsapp, imessage, android messages and signal all use a remarkable piece of technology called end to end encryption. other popular apps like telegram and messenger also offer the feature. but by the end of 2023, meta says messenger will switch over to full end to end encryption as standard. so all text, media and calls will be end to end. a privacy focused messaging platform has to be encrypted. meta also plans to roll it out for instagram direct messaging too, and twitter is also building end to end in its app. but as privacy experts celebrate the trend, governments are increasingly worried. so why are they so worried about it? well, it s because of how clever this secure technology is. let s say that i m the server of an internet company and these people
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are now using apps to send super secure messages every day. whatsapp, imessage, android messages and signal all use a remarkable piece of technology called end to end encryption. other popular apps like telegram and messenger also offer the feature. but by the end of 2023, meta says messenger will switch over to full end to end encryption as standard. so all text, media and calls will be end to end. a privacy focused messaging platform has to be encrypted. meta also plans to roll it out for instagram direct messaging too, and twitter is also building end to end in its app. but as privacy experts celebrate the trend, governments are increasingly worried. so why are they so worried about it? well it s because of how clever this secure technology is. let s say i am the server of an internet company and these people are trying to send messages.
sending readable information over the internet is a pretty bad idea. anyone that intercepts the messages could read them. so these days nearly all the information we share over the internet is encrypted, which means it s scrambled, and therefore protected from prying eyes. a bit like putting a note in a locked box, the messages are protected when they leave us, processed by the apps server and then sent on to the recipient. but with most forms of encryption, the company can unscramble this data they have the keys to read messages. at any point, the company can open up our chat history and share them with others for example, the police. criminals are routinely caught and prosecuted because police are able to access messages in this way. hackers or bad actors too are sometimes able to access our unsecured data. end to end encryption goes a step further. messages are encrypted, but only the sender and the receiver