IT is an important and essential attribute, so when privacy regulations, such as the Philippines' own Data Privacy Act of 2012 and the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, began popping up across the globe, why didn't messaging apps start making end-to-end encryption the default?

Every territory's privacy regulation has nuances that fit within its own culture, but one common thread throughout all of them is that the laws didn't obligate the use of end-to-end encryption in messaging. It is purely up to the messaging platforms if they chose to implement it. Although the regulations have immensely improved the protection of user data from being collected and shared, there are still cracks within the laws that are beginning to show.