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Warning: Instagram DMs Lose End-to-End Encryption Starting Today


As of today, end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages is no longer available. DMs that you send to people on Instagram will no longer feature full encryption, and your conversations are not protected from Meta. Meta can potentially see what's in messages shared between users on Instagram, and that information can be shared with law enforcement agencies worldwide. End-to-end encryption has been an opt-in messaging feature on Instagram since 2023, but Meta quietly removed it.

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