{"id":1009604,"date":"2026-05-23T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009604"},"modified":"2026-05-23T10:15:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:45:57","slug":"what-metas-quiet-retreat-from-encryption-privacy-on-instagram-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/23\/what-metas-quiet-retreat-from-encryption-privacy-on-instagram-means\/","title":{"rendered":"What Meta\u2019s quiet retreat from encryption privacy on Instagram means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg penned a 3,000-word manifesto declaring a fundamental shift in the architecture of social media. &#8220;The future is private,&#8221; he wrote, pledging to weave end-to-end encryption through the fabric of Meta\u2019s empire: Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. It was framed as an existential commitment to human rights in a digital age. <\/p>\n<p>Seven years later, that future has been quietly rewritten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg penned a 3,000-word manifesto declaring a fundamental shift in the architecture of social media. &#8220;The future is private,&#8221; he wrote, pledging to weave end-to-end encryption through the fabric of Meta\u2019s empire: Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. It was framed as an existential commitment to human rights in a digital age. Seven years later, that future has been quietly rewritten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009608,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009604\/revisions\/1009608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}