Mark Zuckerberg's 'Dumb' Users Chat Revived By Pavel Durov As Meta Faces Lawsuit Over WhatsApp Privacy Claims: 'The Only Thing That's Changed...'

Lawsuit claims WhatsApp encryption is a lie; cryptographer weighs in

Both the founders of WhatsApp and current owner Meta state that the app uses end-to-end encryption, meaning that nobody outside...

Mark Zuckerberg's 'Dumb' Users Chat Revived By Pavel Durov As Meta Faces Lawsuit Over WhatsApp Privacy Claims: 'The Only Thing That's Changed...'

Telegram founder Pavel Durov resurfaced a controversial 2004 Mark Zuckerberg chat to criticize WhatsApp's privacy claims as Meta faces a lawsuit over alleged misleading encryption practices, reigniting a broader debate involving Elon Musk while the company denies the allegations. Importance Rank:  1

WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise – Pixel Envy

Joseph Menn, the Washington Post: Most of WhatsApp’s 3 billion users probably don’t know it, but a prominent Los Angeles law firm is trying to speak on their behalf in a lawsuit filed against its owner Meta that alleged the company can “access virtually all of WhatsApp users’ purportedly ‘private’ communications.” Security experts questioned the […]

A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data

WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise

It’s not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps! For that reason, the past several days have been fascinating, since we’ve been given not one but several unusual stories about the encryp…