Google Messages Beta Testers Getting End-to-End Encryption for RCS Messages

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Google Messages Beta Testers Getting End-to-End Encryption for RCS Messages

Google has started offering Rich Communication Service messaging to everyone using its Messages app across the world. RCS can be used regardless of your phone or carrier, with the only condition being that the person whom a user is communicating with must have ‘Chats’ active within the Google Messages app. Apart from the global rollout, Google also announced that end-to-end encryption in a beta version of Google Messages is on its way. Google has also given a set of criteria that certain beta testers will have to meet in order to test end-to-end encryption on Google Messages. There is no timeline as to when Google Messages encryption will land for beta testers, but the company said that is begins this month.

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