Is Your Messaging App Spying on Your Personal Chats?

Opinion: End-to-end encryption should be applied by default

The handling of consumer data has become a controversial topic in recent weeks. For many internet giants, consumer data is their core asset, except that rather than having to pay for it outright, it is given to them for free by us, their users.

Social and messaging platforms are based on the implicit exchange of users posting personal information about their lives in return for various tools to share that information. Most terms of service state that the user controls all of the information they post and how it is shared.

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