So do you think that your messages are safe? Maybe Almost but we have reports that Amnesty International has singled out Snapchat and Skype among other companies for failing to adopt basic privacy protection in its Message Privacy Ranking, released this week. The ranking pits 11 popular messaging services against each other, with Facebook coming out the big winner.

Can you believe it?Companies were ranked based on their recognition of online threats to human rights, default deployment of end-to-end encryption, user disclosure, government disclosure, and publishing of the technical details of their encryption.

Now both Facebook Messenger and the Facebook-owned WhatsApp were lauded in the two latter categories, and despite “inadequate notifications within the apps” scored a 73, the highest score by six over Apple’s iMessage and Facetime, and Telegram messenger. Amnesty urged  Apple to improve its score by informing users that SMS messages are less secure than iMessages.

And “If you think instant messaging services are private, you are in for a big surprise. The reality is that our communications are under constant threat from cybercriminals and spying by state authorities. Young people, the most prolific sharers of personal details and photos over apps like Snapchat, are especially at risk,” Sherif Elsayed-Ali, Head of Amnesty International’s Technology and Human Rights Team said in a statement.

Amnesty International called on messaging services to apply end-to-end encryption as a default feature to protect activists, opposition politicians, journalists, and citizens around the world. It also urges companies to publish details about their privacy-related policies and practices.

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