Meta removed E2EE from Instagram DMs today, May 8, ending private encrypted chats and enabling broader message scanning for abuse detection 📩🔓
The change follows global pressure tied to CSAM enforcement, raising transparency and user-control concerns around private communication 🕵️‍♂️⚠️

🔗 indiatoday.in/technology/news/…

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Instagram removes end-to-end encryption in messages, your DM chats are no longer private

Meta has ended end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages from 8 May The move could allow detection of CSAM grooming and other abuse-related content

^{Kazi Nasir (India Today)}

I mean, you can disable personalisation and delete chats.

They just (surely by mistake) forgot to mention that it was added to their servers regardless.
(Joke.)

On the serious note, we need to educate people they shall not trust Closed-Source software and corporations with so many incidents like Google. (And the fact they're complying with #ChatControl 2.0)