Teams encrypts all communication by default with industry-standard technologies including Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP). By default TLS authenticates all traffic and encrypts them. SRTP is used for media traffic and also encrypted. And by default they are definitely Trustworthy and this end to end encryption is definitely not required unless there is a specific business case.
Last month Microsoft announced the public preview of the end to end encryption as per this blog
The goal of end-to-end encryption is to prevent data from being read or secretly manipulated by anybody other than the sender and recipient. The sender encrypts the calls, chats & files, but the third party or even the service provider has no way of decrypting them and stores them encrypted. The recipients obtain and decrypt the encrypted data on their own.
There may be a situation when a few participants are dealing with business-critical data or sensitive information, and they want more increased security to meet their compliance and regulatory obligations. In some circumstances, end-to-end encryption can be used to accommodate those scenarios, and it can be enabled exclusively for those users who are specifically targeted.
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