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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nElon Musk recently said that WhatsApp\u2019s end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) cannot be trusted. The tech billionaire was responding to a post about a new class action lawsuit against Meta that blames the platform for reading users\u2019 messages without consent. \u201cWhatsApp\u2019s \u201cend-to-end encrypted\u201d privacy is a total lie. New class-action lawsuit just dropped: Meta secretly let employees, contractors like Accenture, and third parties read, intercept, and store your private messages WITHOUT consent. All while marketing it as \u201conly you and the recipient can read it.\u201d Zuck lied to billions. Your chats were never safe,\u201d X user Mario Nawfal posted. Elon Musk replied to the post writing \u201cCan\u2019t trust WhatsApp\u201d.\u201cUse X Chat for messaging and voice\/video calls. Comes with this great benefit of actual privacy,\u201d Musk said in another post. <\/p>\n The Meta-owned platform has rejected the claims made in the lawsuit. WhatsApp replied to Musk\u2019s post on X stating:\u201cThe claims in this lawsuit are categorically false and absurd. WhatsApp has been end-to-end encrypted using the Signal protocol for a decade so your messages cannot be read by anyone other than the sender and recipient.\u201d<\/span>As explained on a WhatsApp FAQ, \u201cWhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption is used when you chat with another person using WhatsApp Messenger. No one outside of the chat, not even WhatsApp, can read, listen to, or share them. This is because with end-to-end encryption, your messages are secured with a lock, and only the recipient and you have the special key needed to unlock and read them\u201d.<\/p>\n Telegram CEO Pavel Durov also shared a post criticizing the messaging platform. In an X post, Durov wrote:\u201cWhatsApp\u2019s \u201cencryption\u201d may be the biggest consumer fraud in history \u2014 deceiving billions of users. <\/span>Despite its claims, it reads users\u2019 messages and shares them with third parties. Telegram has never done this \u2014 and never will\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n Earlier this year, an international group of plaintiffs filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta-owned WhatsApp, accusing the company of defrauding billions of users by allegedly maintaining \u2018backdoor\u2019 access to private communications that the company claims are “end-to-end encryption”. Filed in the US District Court for Northern California, the lawsuit challenges Meta\u2019s E2EE feature.According to a report by Bloomberg then, the lawsuit claims that Meta\u2019s privacy claims are false as the company WhatsApp \u201cstore, analyze, and can access virtually all of WhatsApp users\u2019 purportedly \u2018private\u2019 communications\u201d. The plaintiffs represented users from India, Brazil, Australia, Mexico and South Africa. <\/div>\n\nWhatsApp hits back<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov targets WhatsApp<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Class action lawsuit against WhatsApp<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n