This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. J.R. Whalen: Here's your Money Briefing for Friday, September 27th. I'm J.R.

Imagine opening your front door wide and inviting the world to listen in on your most private conversations. Unthinkable, right? Yet, in the digital realm, people inadvertently leave doors ajar, ...

Last year, Facebook-parent Meta effectively pushed back its timetable for rolling out end-to-end encryption by default across its various social platforms, with an executive saying the ...

Signal is a messaging app that uses end-to-end encryption to keep your messages private. When you send a message on Signal, the only people who can see it are the recipients. You can use the Signal ...

This is a bit blown out of proportion. From the article, the fundamental weakness is this: "The loophole in WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is simple: the recipient of any WhatsApp message can flag ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. J.R. Whalen: Here's your Money Briefing for Friday, September 27th. I'm J.R.

End-to-end encryption is a way to keep messages private. It’s sometimes used by apps, which basically turn those messages into unintelligible chunks of data as soon as a user hits “Send.” The idea is ...