If your device runs an earlier Android version, the Lollipop upgrade offers to enable encryption during the upgrade. Otherwise, you must manually enable it after the upgrade.

Android's Messages app now has end-to-end encryption. Make sure you enable it. You can still be exposed for posting filth in the group chat, though.

WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption for all communication, but it also offers encryption for data backups on Android and iPhone as well - just not by default.

WhatsApp has implemented end-to-end encryption for Android backups, marking a significant enhancement to the security of users’ chat backups stored outside the messaging application. The feature, ...

Add a layer of privacy and security to messages in Android by using end-to-end encryption, a feature that is now out of beta.

Google announced late last year that the one feature that was missing from its latest iMessage alternative was coming soon. That’s end-to-end encryption, a privacy … ...

Along with a string of new features across several areas of Android, Google is at last turning on end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for everyone in the Messages app. Beta testers have been able to use ...

End-to-end encryption has been enabled in Google’s Messages app for texts between individual users, but once this beta test is complete, full end-to-end encryption will be expanded to group ...

We managed to enable MLS encryption for one-on-one RCS conversations in Google Messages' latest beta using flags. Read on to know more!

At least 74 percent of Android devices can be remotely reset by Google if law enforcement requests it. Android phones running 5.0 and up have encryption.