evacideIn this golden age of surveillance, making E2EE chat normal and expected has been privacy's biggest win. I hate to see it getting rolled back. https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/meta-to-shut-down-instagram-end-to-end.html
Gustavo@evacide The thing is: WhatsApp can be the next in line and people will not migrate from it if it happens.
Feyter@qgustavor @evacide we will see.
I could imagine an EU intervention when Meta removes encrytion from WhatsApp.
SarI wouldn't bet on it. Heard of Chat Control? The EU are walking roughshod over their own history of privacy protections along with seemingly every government on earth in a desperate bid to read everyone's private information.
Apart from theirs, because *of course* they've made themselves exempt from all the rules they want to impose on others...
Chuckles@sar @feyter @qgustavor @evacide EU politicians are tripping over themselves trying to get those bribes from billionaires (aka "lobbying"). Their talk of "sovereignty" is simply a "for sale" sign. And that means *you*, @EUCommission