Federal investigation found Meta can read WhatsApp messages despite encryption claims, then probe was mysteriously shut down by senior officials.

Apple issued a patch after court documents revealed that the FBI accessed a defendant's encrypted Signal messages via notification previews.

Google has expanded Gmail's end-to-end encryption for Workspace users to iOS and Android, allowing mobile users to compose and read encrypted messages natively within the Gmail app for the first time.

Users of Android and iPhone smartphones can now benefit from end-to-end Gmail encryption, for any recipient, Google has confirmed. But there’s a catch.

In November 2025, an Instagram post (archived) with more than 100,000 likes claimed Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, will start reading users' direct messages once it ...