Understand Privacy and Security
FaceTime, Messages (iMessage, not SMS/MMS or RCS), and phone calls (not Phone) have a variety of privacy and security measures in place to protect you. The goals for FaceTime and Messages are:
Protect your identity. Information about you isn’t disclosed without your explicit intent. You’re warned when you might be about to disclose information you didn’t mean to.
Prevent other parties from knowing with whom you’re talking, messaging, or otherwise communicating. Preventing snooping of so-called metadata keeps other people out of your business, including governments.
Keep the contents of your communications strictly private. As with metadata, the right to communicate without invasion should be fundamental.
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