Everyone deserves the sort of privacy that end-to-end encryption offers for their conversations, and we’re happy to see Google and Apple recognized that with this release.

[eff@mastodon.social]

Everyone deserves the sort of privacy that end-to-end encryption offers for their conversations, and we’re happy to see Google and Apple recognized that with this release. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/victory-end-end-encrypted-rcs-comes-apple-and-android-chats

[kbal@fedia.io]

The question that comes to mind: Are others able to join in on the interoperability as well, or is this an agreement between Google and Apple to keep the whole market divided up between just the two of them?

[fhenshib@ohai.social]

@eff
Do I understand correctly that they deployed an E2EE, interoperable, drop-in replacement for SMS that is also enabled by default and works out of the box?

[wheresmywater@mastodon.world]

@eff End to end except for back doors

[sirtao@social.sirtao.it]

IIRC it still requires carrier support, but it's a GSM standard so it's up to the carriers being compliant.

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