It's absolutely insane to me that in this day and age a company would reject end-to-end encryption so that cops and feds can actively read people's messages. It also puts that same data at risk from hackers. But that's TikTok, under new U.S. ownership.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o

TikTok says it won't encrypt DMs claiming it puts users at risk

TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.

@zackwhittaker As I read and understand, this is about both the new U.S.-TikTok as well as the rest-of-the-global-world-TikTok companies, not only the U.S. one. (the Chinese one is a third, separate, matter)