# Thoughts on Turning Off Personal Messaging and Chats

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-turning-off-personal-messaging-and-chats/361814
**Category:** Community Building
**Tags:** chat, personal-messages
**Created:** [April 14, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-turning-off-personal-messaging-and-chats/361814 "2025-04-14T22:11:17Z")
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### Author: ![Architect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/architect/32/520575_2.png) [@Architect](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Architect)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-turning-off-personal-messaging-and-chats/361814/40 "2025-12-14T02:23:29Z")

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There used to be support for an encryption feature with discourse personal messaging but that has been depreciated:

> [@Discourse Encrypt (deprecated)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-encrypt-deprecated/107918):
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> play_button Original Plugin Description Last edited by @david 2024-12-03T15:46:08Z (UTC) play_button Check document

> [@eisammy](#):
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> And when my government has laws about it?

Looks like you are talking about Brazil with LGPD, says here that “broadly aligns” with GDPR policies:

> **[Data protection laws in Brazil - Data Protection Laws of the World](https://www.dlapiperdataprotection.com/index.html?t=law&c=BR)**

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