domenukMay 14
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Everyone deserves the sort of privacy that end-to-end encryption offers for their conversations, and we’re happy to see Google and Apple recognized that with this release. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/victory-end-end-encrypted-rcs-comes-apple-and-android-chats
Victory! End-to-End Encrypted RCS Comes to Apple and Android Chats

With the support of end-to-end encryption for RCS messages, Apple and Google have taken the steps to Encrypt it Already!

Electronic Frontier Foundation
May 14 at 9:57pmTypefully
Show threadkbalMay 14
The question that comes to mind: Are others able to join in on the interoperability as well, or is this an agreement between Google and Apple to keep the whole market divided up between just the two of them?
Show threadfhenshibMay 15
@eff
Do I understand correctly that they deployed an E2EE, interoperable, drop-in replacement for SMS that is also enabled by default and works out of the box?
Show threadsirtaoMay 15
IIRC it still requires carrier support, but it's a GSM standard so it's up to the carriers being compliant.

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Show threadfhenshibMay 17
@sirtao @eff Yes, I should have written "they deployed support for" etc. But I still find incredible that they did.
Show threadTravis ScottMay 15
@eff End to end except for back doors
Show threadnihilistic_capybaraMay 15

@eff hey eff.

I recently got involved in a debate about trade unions in poland and I feel like this is the only way to make a change as a dev.

Do you'all perhaps know of any movements in poland that attempt to unionize software devs or tech people?