In plain English
A securely protected connection helps keep information private and unchanged while it travels between a browser and a web page or website. When that protection is missing, what is sent in either direction may be visible to other people or altered on the way. That state is called not secure.
In context
Here, not secure warns that the web page or website is connected to the browser without secure protection, so information going between them could be seen or altered by others.
- Situation
- Understanding encryption, privacy, data-sharing, and secure-connection labels
- What it communicates
- warns about an unprotected site-connection state
Meaning limits
By itself, this status does not show that someone is currently reading or changing the information.
Examples
“The order page was not secure, so the address she entered could have been read or changed before it arrived.”
“Seeing that the page was not secure, he called the office instead of using the contact form.”