An international group of plaintiffs have sued Meta Platforms (META), claiming the company has made false claims about the privacy of its WhatsApp, Jake Bleiberg of Bloomberg reports. The company has made “end-to-end” encryption a central part of its WhatsApp platform features, offering encryption meant to only allow messages to be accessible to the sender and recipient. In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the plaintiffs allege Meta’s privacy claims are false, claiming the company “store, analyze, and can access virtually all of the WhatsApp users’ purportedly ‘private’ communications,” according to Bloomberg.
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