{"id":4467,"date":"2026-03-04T01:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/tiktok-wont-protect-dms-with-controversial-privacy-tech-saying-it-would-put-users-at-risk\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:59:01","slug":"tiktok-wont-protect-dms-with-controversial-privacy-tech-saying-it-would-put-users-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/tiktok-wont-protect-dms-with-controversial-privacy-tech-saying-it-would-put-users-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok won&#8217;t protect DMs with controversial privacy tech, saying it would put users at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok won&#8217;t protect DMs with controversial privacy tech, saying it would put users at risk<\/p>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IDSvFP.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We know just how risky end-to-end-encrypted platforms can be for children, preventing the detection of child sexual abuse and exploitation and contributing to a worrying global decline in reports,&#8221; said Rani Govender, its associate head of policy for child online safety.<\/p>\n<p>Published at Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:34:49 +0000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok won&#8217;t protect DMs with controversial privacy tech, saying it would put users at risk &#8220;We know just how risky end-to-end-encrypted platforms can be for children, preventing the detection of child sexual abuse and exploitation and contributing to a worrying global decline in reports,&#8221; said Rani Govender, its associate head of policy for child online&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/tiktok-wont-protect-dms-with-controversial-privacy-tech-saying-it-would-put-users-at-risk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TikTok won&#8217;t protect DMs with controversial privacy tech, saying it would put users at risk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}