Overview
- EFF’s campaign lays out three tracks—Keep Your Promises, Defaults Matter, Protect Our Data—naming Apple, Google, Meta, Bluesky, Telegram, and Ring with concrete tasks.
- A top priority is interoperable end-to-end encrypted RCS from Apple and Google, with iOS 26.3 betas adding carrier settings that indicate preparation for RCS encryption but no launch timeline.
- Unmet commitments flagged include Facebook Messenger group-message encryption and Bluesky’s promised encrypted direct messages.
- Default protections urged include Telegram turning on encrypted DMs by default, WhatsApp enabling encrypted backups by default, and Ring making camera video encryption the default.
- New safeguards requested encompass encrypted backups for Google Authenticator and Android, OS-level per-app AI permissions to block system AIs from secure chats, clear public and technical documentation, metadata minimization, and user action through enabling features and submitting feedback.