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Chat privately using Google Messages

Back in Issue 658 (page 45), we wrote about the RCS (Rich Communication Services) feature in Google’s Messages app (www.snipca.com/47255), which lets you send photos and videos in text messages without being charged by your mobile network. Google has now updated the app – which comes installed on Android phones – to apply end-to-end encryption to your messages.

This new feature brings Messages more in line with WhatsApp and Facebook, which also encrypt messages, and means no one but you and the

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