Google Hangouts encryption doesn’t offer you the privacy protection you thought

[Wireless News]

Even though Hangouts is an encrypted Google service, it turns out that the user’s privacy isn’t as protected as initially believed. Police can still get access to what happens in the popular texting and video chatting tool that many Internet users including Android device owners access on a regular basis. DON’T MISS: Video: Here’s how you can use the Moto 360 with an iPhone or iPad right now Google Hangouts doesn’t have end-to-end encryption, though everything that’s sent through it is encrypted so you don’t necessarily have to worry about its security. However, as Motherboard reports, Google has never acknowledged this publicly until recently. On Friday, during a Reddit AMA session with Richard Salgado, Google’s director for law enforcement and

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