Apple iMessage Soundly Beaten By WhatsApp's Stunning New Update

Apple is now battling its tech rivals to protect your privacy, it says. What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone, it says. But there’s a catch. Apple’s iMessage has now fallen well behind its rivals, risking the privacy of millions of iPhone users. End-to-end encryption is a must for any messaging platform. But it also risks a false sense of security. While your information is protected in transit from your phone to others, once there it’s open to compromise. And that means you need to beware what you send, lest it comes back to haunt you later—maybe years later. Do you remember what you texted colleagues at your last company back in 2014? What about the messages you sent your college friends when news of Trump’s election victory came in? How many Facebook memes have you shared with how many people? How many iMessage and WhatsApp and other groups do you belong to? What tasteless memes have you sent to them, or have they sent to you? What about snaps you quickly take and share? Or videos taken on a work night out? Friends you no longer maintain. Relationships you no longer remember—and those you do remember, but…
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