US Edition‘Totally false’: WhatsApp Chief rejects claims Meta can read private messages
- Recently, a multi-country class-action filed in a US federal court in San Francisco alleges Meta Platforms Inc's WhatsApp misled users about end-to-end encryption, claiming Meta can access private communications.
- Plaintiffs allege WhatsApp's infrastructure lets Meta retain and potentially access messages, contradicting in-app promises that only sender and recipient can read messages.
- Meta responded that it rejects the suit as `frivolous` and `absurd`, with WhatsApp head Will Cathcart calling it a `no-merit, headline-seeking lawsuit`, and the company will seek sanctions against plaintiffs' lawyers.
- Regulators in the United Kingdom recently launched an investigation into Meta's WhatsApp data compliance, and if certified as a class action, Meta could face unprecedented liability due to its vast user base.
- Amid growing AI integration, critics say many users are unaware that their interactions feed automated systems, while Meta's AI policy updates raise concerns over advertising and machine learning uses of chat data and industry standards on encryption.
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Elon Musk says WhatsApp is not secure; Meta executive hits back
As per a Bloomberg report, an international group of plaintiffs sued Meta Platforms alleging that the company has made false claims about the privacy and security of WhatsApp. Meta has made “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.
Elon Musk says 'WhatsApp is not secure' amid Meta privacy lawsuit; Sridhar Vembu cites 'conflict of interest'
A lawsuit against Meta alleges false privacy claims regarding WhatsApp, asserting that user conversations can be accessed. Meta has dismissed the allegations. Executives of rival firms, Elon Musk and Sridhar Vembu, reacted to the lawsuits.
Can Meta Access Your WhatsApp Chats? - New Lawsuit Puts Tech Giant Under Fire
So many of us use WhatsApp for daily messaging as it guarantees our privacy. When WhatsApp tells you that messages are end-to-end encrypted, most people understand this to mean that no one outside the conversation can read or intercept those messages. That assurance has helped make WhatsApp one of the world's most popular messaging platforms with billions of users across the globe. However, a new lawsuit filed against Meta Platforms Inc, the par…
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‘Totally false’: WhatsApp Chief rejects claims Meta can read private messages
WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart rejected claims that Meta can read private messages, calling them 'totally false,' after Elon Musk questioned WhatsApp’s security. Meta said a lawsuit alleging encryption bypass is baseless and defamatory.
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