Meta can access WhatsApp chats, lawsuits claim

An international group of plaintiffs sued Meta Platforms, Inc alleging that the company has made false claims about the privacy and security of its WhatsApp chat service.

- Bloomberg

Meta has made so called “end-to-end” encryption a central part of WhatsApp’s feature set, offering a Kind of encryption that means a message is only accessible to the sender and recipient, but not the company.

In this kind of encrypted chat, which the company says is turned on by default, WhatsApp’s in-app messaging says “only people in this chat can read, listen to, or share” the messages.