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Yasmina El Zein • 19 Mar 2026

Meta is making Instagram DMs less private, WANA users could pay the price

Meta’s removal of the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) technology for its Instagram Direct Messages (DMs) could pose serious risk to internet…

  • Censorship
  • Digital Rights
  • encryption
Ragheb Ghandour • 25 Aug 2020

How To Make A Privacy-Oriented Application During A Crisis

Over the past couple of weeks, state agencies, international organizations, and local initiatives have launched applications to track housing damage,…

  • Apps
  • crisis
  • digital safety
SMEX • 07 Oct 2019

Open Letter: Facebook’s End-to-End Encryption Plans

On October 4, SMEX and many other civil society organizations shared an open letter to Facebook and other tech companies…

  • encryption
  • Facebook
  • messaging