Unlike either an antique pay phone-or the end-to-end-encrypted app Signal, a less-used phone messaging option-WhatsApp doesn’t let you dial random digits. Not only is it a property of that often-distrusted social network, it demands access to your phone’s contacts for basic functionality. option, Facebook’s WhatsApp, has other privacy implications.įorget to cancel your free trial? 5 silly ways you waste money in your tech life For example, its Mail app encrypts messages in transit but not end to end, and iPhones still lack the call-screening tools Google shipped four years ago to block robocalls.Īpple notes how other messaging apps let you use your phone number in encrypted chats.
Those fair critiques conflict with Apple accepting other falls from communications grace.
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Messaging apps as social status symbols: Google says Apple's iMessage, and its blue message bubbles, dominate because of bullyingĮvan Greer, director of the tech-policy activist group Fight For the Future, blamed Apple in an email: “It's outrageous that Apple continues to put people at risk by refusing to make iMessage encrypted and interoperable with RCS messaging.”Īpple declined to speak on the record about this privacy gap or how it squares with it declaring privacy “a fundamental human right.” But company leadership seems to object most to RCS not delivering full end-to-end encryption, along with abuses of RCS verified business messaging in such markets as India.
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A text from an Android user to an iPhone user and vice versa gets sent “in the clear,” arriving in a green bubble on an iPhone and in a light-gray bubble on Android devices. Both also support features like typing indicators and “tapback” emoji.īut neither interoperates with the other. Both iMessage and RCS scramble messages in transit (which requires a data connection), but where RCS can e ncrypt individual chats end-to-end (keeping them scrambled everywhere but the actual phones), iMessage does that for both individual and group chats.
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