Instagram will remove end‑to‑end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026 🔓.

Without E2EE, private messages could become accessible for data analysis or AI training, raising serious privacy and user‑trust concerns 🤔.

🔗 https://proton.me/blog/instagram-end-to-end-encryption

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Instagram drops end-to-end encrypted chats: What it means | Proton

Instagram will drop end-to-end encrypted chats on May 8, 2026, reversing years of Meta’s push for stronger privacy. Here's what it means.

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@knoppix95 Glad i left that shitty platform back in January

@knoppix95

Won’t bother anyone who left social media !!

@knoppix95 There's only one reason to make this decision.

@knoppix95

How can it have "removed" this on 8 May 2026, when it's currently 16 March 2026?

@kaffando holy! and no one noticed 😅 I fixed it, I thought I was late with the news and they did it on 8 march so I've wrote "removed" but put the right date (May).

Thanks again ❤️

@knoppix95

Haha! No probs, and thank you for this information!

@knoppix95

1. proton's CEO is pro-trump

2. proton suspend your account if you use it for purposes they don't agree with - they admit this, as part of their terms of use .... which means your emails are not "secure" or "encrypted" as per their marketing. they are actively monitoring your emails

@charlesdelavalleepoussin Point 1 is pointless, we're talking about tech not politics.

Point 2 is wrong, they can't scan e-mails since they're E2EE but they have automated systems to ban people spamming or running suspicious log-ins.

No need to lie to yourself mate, Proton's terms and privacy policy are very clear.

You may hate them for their politics, but there's no need to smear them.

@knoppix95

1. Tech is not political?

2. Emails are not E2EE encrypted. A proton email user can't email a hotmail user if they were.

3. They've suspended accounts for reasons beyond "spamming" and "suspicious log-ins"

@charlesdelavalleepoussin I skip 1 and 3, you're right on point 2 I mean Proton Mail has end-to-end encryption (between Proton accounts or with PGP) and zero-access encryption. They store encrypted data (e-mail content and attachments only, the rest is stored in clear).
@knoppix95 Instagram dropping E2EE is a reminder that platform privacy is always revocable. The same is true of payment privacy on banks and CEXs — they can and do share your data. Monero is different: privacy is enforced at the protocol level, not dependent on a corporate promise. No policy change can retroactively deanonymize XMR transactions.