The privacy upgrade for Android users follows a beta release of ‘E2E’ in December but remains irrelevant for iPhone and Google Voice users
Group text chats between Android users should now have the same privacy as one-to-one conversations, courtesy of Google completing an upgrade to its RCS messaging service that extends end-to-end encryption to multiple-person chats.
Google announced this Tuesday in a post in a support forum that also reported that RCS–a Google-backed industry standard for upgraded text and multimedia messaging–is now enabled by default for all users of its Messages app for Android.
That move followed Google shipping “E2E” encryption for group chats as a beta feature in December.
