Your organization can now read your texts
Microsoft stirred controversy when it revealed a Teams update that could tell your organization when you’re not at work. Google did the same. Say goodbye to end-to-end encryption. With this new RCS and SMS Android update, your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
According to Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel (and other Android) phones, allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices. In simpler terms, your employer will now be able to read your RCS chats in Google Messages despite end-to-end encryption.”
Only for organizational devices
This is only applicable to work-managed devices and doesn’t impact personal devices. In regulated industries, it will only add RCS archiving to existing SMS archiving. In an organization, however, texting is different than emailing. In the former, employees sometimes share about their non-work life. End-to-end encryptions keep these conversations safe, but this will no longer be the case.
The end-to-end question
There is alot of misunderstanding around end-to-end encryption. It protects messages when they are being sent, but once they are on your device, they are decrypted and no longer safe.
According to Google, this is “a dependable, Android-supported solution for message archival, which is also backwards compatible with SMS and MMS messages as well. Employees will se
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