Security News > 2022 > September > Meta, Twitter, Apple, Google urged to up encryption game in post-Roe America

Tech companies are throwing their users to the wolves by allowing company employees, cops, and other third parties to access unprotected messages.

"After the reversal of Roe v. Wade and with more rights cutbacks on the way, tech companies are throwing their users to the wolves by allowing company employees, cops, and other third parties to access unprotected messages."

Meta delivers 160 billion messages everyday across its Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp services, he said.

While iMessage texts are end-to-end encrypted by default when sent between iPhones, messages between iPhone and Android devices don't use E2EE. Google has called on Apple to "Fix texting" by adopting Rich Communications Services, a protocol used by most mobile industry vendors but not the iPhone maker.

RCS originally did not include E2EE, but Google Messages added support in late 2020; Group messages got E2E encryption this year.

Discord, which also don't use E2EE for messaging, did not respond to The Register's unencrypted requests for comments, either.

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