{"id":15061,"date":"2026-05-24T00:43:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T00:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=15061"},"modified":"2026-05-24T00:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T00:43:58","slug":"texas-ag-sues-meta-over-claims-that-whatsapp-doesnt-present-end-to-end-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=15061","title":{"rendered":"Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn't present end-to-end encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Texas Lawyer Normal has sued Meta over allegations that the corporate\u2019s WhatsApp messenger, utilized by greater than 3 billion individuals, doesn\u2019t present the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) it has lengthy claimed.<\/p>\n

Since at the least 2016, Meta (then named Fb) has stated WhatsApp supplies strong end-to-end encryption, that means that messages are encrypted on a sender\u2019s system with keys which can be accessible solely to the receiver’s. By definition, E2EE implies that nobody else\u2014together with the platform itself\u2014can learn the plaintext messages.<\/p>\n

In sworn testimony earlier than two US Senate committees in 2018, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated<\/a> Meta does \u201cnot see any of the content material in WhatsApp; it’s totally encrypted\u201d and that \u201cFb methods don’t see the content material of messages being transferred over WhatsApp.\u201d The engine for this E2EE is the Sign protocol, an open supply code base that a number of third-party specialists have stated lives as much as its guarantees.<\/p>\n

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The Texas Lawyer Normal has sued Meta over allegations that the corporate\u2019s WhatsApp messenger, utilized by greater than 3 billion individuals, doesn\u2019t present the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) it has lengthy claimed. Since at the least 2016, Meta (then named Fb) has stated WhatsApp supplies strong end-to-end encryption, that means that messages are encrypted on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[640,9186,3264,786,1568,7056,4602,3405,3262],"class_list":["post-15061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-claims","tag-doesn039t","tag-encryption","tag-endtoend","tag-meta","tag-provide","tag-sues","tag-texas","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15062,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15061\/revisions\/15062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}