{"id":241775,"date":"2026-05-08T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/internet-calls-out-meta-over-internet-privacy-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:45:07","slug":"internet-calls-out-meta-over-internet-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/internet-calls-out-meta-over-internet-privacy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Calls Out Meta Over Internet Privacy Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wideopencountry.com\/meta-is-now-able-to-read-private-dms-and-users-are-irate\/\">Internet Calls Out Meta Over Internet Privacy Concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wideopencountry.com\/meta-is-now-able-to-read-private-dms-and-users-are-irate\/\">https:\/\/www.wideopencountry.com\/meta-is-now-able-to-read-private-dms-and-users-are-irate\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 12:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wideopencountry.com\">www.wideopencountry.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meta&#8217;s Instagram is removing one of its biggest user privacy protections.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning today, May 8, users are losing access to end-to-end encrypted direct messages.<\/p>\n<p>Released in 2023, end-to-end encryption was an optional feature that allowed users to send ultra-private messages.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the feature is being omitted entirely.<\/p>\n<p>With the removal of the feature, messages will now return to standard encryption, which means Meta could access content such as texts, photos, videos and voice notes if required.<\/p>\n<p>The action comes 12 days before the enactment of the Take It Down Act, a federal law signed in May 2025 that mandates that businesses remove non-consensual deepfake images within 48 hours of a victim&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-instagram-users-react-to-invasive-privacy-policy-change\">Instagram Users React to Invasive Privacy Policy Change<\/h2>\n<p>In the wake of Meta&#8217;s privacy change, many users expressed concern and frustration on <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People spent years being told encryption was the future of privacy, only to watch platforms quietly walk it back the second governments, advertisers, or moderation pressures increase. Every &#8216;free&#8217; platform eventually reminds users who really controls the data,&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wideopencountry.com\/meta-is-now-able-to-read-private-dms-and-users-are-irate\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Calls Out Meta Over Internet Privacy Concerns https:\/\/www.wideopencountry.com\/meta-is-now-able-to-read-private-dms-and-users-are-irate\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-08 12:24:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.wideopencountry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2038598670-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241779,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241775\/revisions\/241779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}