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Google Messages Gets Encrypted Group Messaging

Kellen December 2, 2022 7

The messages you send between more than a single other person should be private, right? I'm talking about encryption, and the idea is that no one should be able to read your messages other than the people you are sending them to. With Google Messages, the...

Google Messages Group Chats to Get Encryption

Kellen May 12, 2022 8

As a part of the Google I/O keynote, Google talked a bit about its Messages app and how many people are using RCS through it, before pitching (once again) to Apple that it should think about implementing the messaging technology, without naming them. What they...

Google Fi Gets End-to-End Encrypted Calls

Kellen October 29, 2021 2

Need that extra bit of privacy on your calls? Google Fi to the rescue. This week, Google announced that when you place calls on Google Fi to another Android phone, those calls will automatically be end-to-end encrypted. That way, your conversations stay only...

WhatsApp Adds End-to-End Encryption for Backups

Kellen October 14, 2021 3

WhatsApp has had end-to-end encryption for all of the messages you send for a solid 5 years now, as long as those messages are only stored on your device. For those who want backups of those chats to store on Google Drive or iCloud, that same encryption hasn't...

End-to-End Encryption Exits Beta for Google Messages

Tim June 15, 2021 18

Google introduced end-to-end encryption for one-on-one conversations in beta inside the Messages app last November. This week, the feature has apparently exited beta, available to all inside of the app via the Chat Features menu. There's no need to do anything...

Google Messages Encryption is Super Live, Reactions Hit the Web

Kellen December 11, 2020 10

The feature list of Google Messages, as well as its flexibility for use across devices, continues to improve with each passing month. We learned a month ago that encryption was soon to arrive for RCS users, and that seems to be going live for more folks today,...

RCS End-to-End Encryption Hinted at in Internal Google Messages Build

Kellen May 25, 2020 5

For Google Messages to continue to take steps towards matching Apple's iMessage in features, its biggest need is arguably in the private security department. We're talking end-to-end encryption over messages, which Google has yet to include. According to an...

On Encryption, Apple, the FBI, and You

Kellen February 18, 2016 131

I may be an outlier in a world full of tech talking heads, many of which who really, really love to listen to themselves talk, but I don't have a hot take on the current situation involving Apple, the FBI, encryption, what other players in tech have or have...