Meta sued over claims that WhatsApp messages are fully secure

WhatsApp has made end-to-end encryption a core feature of its service. The company says the feature is turned on by default and tells users inside chats that “only people in this chat can read, listen to, or share” messages. Meta has said this encryption ensures messages are accessible only to the sender and recipient, not the company. The plaintiffs allege these claims are false. The lawsuit says Meta and WhatsApp “store, analyze, and can access virtually all of WhatsApp users’ purportedly ‘private’ commu ...