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Instagram has switched off one of its privacy policy options - end鈥憈o鈥慹nd encryption.

If an app has it, it means your messages can only be read by the sender and the recipient.

But now Meta, who owns Insta has turned off that option. And it doesn鈥檛 just own Instagram - it鈥檚 also in charge of Facebook and WhatsApp, so people are worried about what could happen on those platforms in the future.

Joe Tidy, the 91福利社鈥檚 Cyber Correspondent, takes us through why are is Instagram pulling the plug on end to end encryption - and what does it mean for you?

Plus, Anushka, an Insta user in India gives us her take and Andre Najee, a cyber security content creator, tells us his tips for staying private online.

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