Are Your Chats Really Private? Whistleblower Claims Meta Retains Them All !

San Francisco: Meta Platform made bogus claims regarding privacy and security of its Whatsapp Chat service alleged by a group of international plaintiffs. 

The “end-to-end” encryption feature set by Whatsapp that gives the accessibility of sending messages only from sender and receiver seems to be faked by the company. 

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The plaintiffs in the action, which was submitted on Friday to the US District Court in San Francisco, argue that Meta’s privacy claims are untrue. They claim that Meta and WhatsApp “store, analyze, and can access virtually all of WhatsApp users’ purportedly ‘private’ communications” and accuse the firms and their executives of deceiving the billions of users of WhatsApp across the globe.

A representative for Meta, which purchased WhatsApp in 2014, referred to the complaint as “frivolous” and stated that the business “will pursue sanctions against plaintiffs’ counsel.”

In an email, spokesperson Andy Stone stated, “Any claim that people’s WhatsApp messages are not encrypted is categorically false and absurd.” For ten years, WhatsApp has used the Signal protocol for end-to-end encryption. This case is a ridiculous piece of fiction.

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The group, which consists of litigants from Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico, and South Africa, claims that Meta retains user messages and that employees have access to them.

Although it doesn’t identify them, the complaint names “whistleblowers” as having contributed to the discovery of this material.

The plaintiffs’ attorneys are requesting that a class-action lawsuit be certified by the court. Requests for comment from several lawyers from the firms of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Keller Postman were not immediately answered. Jay Barnett of Barnett Legal, another attorney for the plaintiff, declined to comment on Saturday night.