Meta plans to end end-to-end encrypted direct messages on Instagram beginning May 8, 2026, according to recent reporting on the company’s shifting privacy strategy. The decision would reverse a ...

The federal government has drawn a line: encryption that protects bank transactions, power grids, and classified communications will not survive the arrival of large-scale quantum computers, and the ...

Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs. The feature will "no longer be supported after May 8, 2026," the ...

Pulling the plug on privacy?

Instagram will stop supporting end-to-end encryption in May, and affected messages may need to be downloaded beforehand.

Meta is pulling its end-to-end encryption option on Instagram DMs. The company announced the change in an update to its ...

Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8th. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby Luce says the platform is discontinuing the feature ...

A Meta spokesperson told PCMag it opted to remove the feature, which has proved controversial in the past, because ‘very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs.’ ...