Over 6 billion text messages are sent in the U.S. every single day. That’s 6,000,000,000. Ninety-seven percent of Americans send at least one text message per day. The average Millennial exchanges 67 texts per day. Text messaging is rapidly becoming the preferred method of communication for many people. But just how private are those messages? Do you know? Do you even care? Although it’s not completely bulletproof, Apple’s iMessage service comes close, by providing “end-to-end encryption” for the content of the messages exchanged using its servers. That protects the actual messages you exchange, but there’s other useful data from those messages that law enforcement can still obtain. For example, the geolocation data and other metadata attached to each message is not necessarily encrypted, and can therefore be accessed by law enforcement — with a warrant, that is. That’s because thanks to the U.S. Supreme…
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