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Meta removed end to end encryption from Instagram DMs on May 8th, 11 days before a federal law requiring platforms to scan messages took effect. A platform that can't read your DMs can't comply. Now it can read them. Link in the next post. #Privacy #Meta #Instagram #encryption
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