Last week, Google unveiled a number of new products, one being a new messaging app called Allo. The app features strong, end-to-end encryption, but it’s not the default setting. Users have to turn it on, and that has some privacy advocates up in arms, The Washington Post reports. Edward Snowden tweeted that not having it on by default “is dangerous, and makes it unsafe.” New America’s Open Technology Institute Director Kevin Bankston, however, said, “I, too, would prefer that Allo be encrypted by default,” but added, “all in all, this is going to be a net increase in the amount of encrypted messaging out in the world. And that is ultimately a good thing.” (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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