Why do we care about end-to-end encryption

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In the last few years phones and apps have been touting themselves as better than other phones/services because their messaging has end-to-end encryption, or some other variant of secure messaging. Why do we care?

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The right to choose with whom one shares information is an inate right mankind has enjoyed since time immemorial. Just because the medium through which information is exchanged has evolved does not mean modern humans should not enjoy this same right to privacy. End to end encryption is necessary for the private exchange of ideas to continue in the modern world.

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