{"id":1002312,"date":"2026-04-10T10:21:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002312"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:52:30","slug":"the-biggest-consumer-fraud-telegram-ceo-claims-whatsapp-is-secretly-reading-your-private-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/the-biggest-consumer-fraud-telegram-ceo-claims-whatsapp-is-secretly-reading-your-private-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The biggest consumer fraud&#8217;: Telegram CEO claims WhatsApp is secretly reading your private messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has made a sharp attack on WhatsApp over the app&#8217;s promise of end-to-end encryption. Durov accused the company of not only reading users&#8217; private messages but also sharing them with third-party services and called it the \u2018biggest consumer fraud in history\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Durov wrote, \u201cWhatsApp\u2019s \u201cencryption\u201d may be the biggest consumer fraud in history \u2014 deceiving billions of users. Despite its claims, it reads users\u2019 messages and shares them with third parties. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has made a sharp attack on WhatsApp over the app&#8217;s promise of end-to-end encryption. Durov accused the company of not only reading users&#8217; private messages but also sharing them with third-party services and called it the \u2018biggest consumer fraud in history\u2019. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Durov wrote, \u201cWhatsApp\u2019s \u201cencryption\u201d may be the biggest consumer fraud in history \u2014 deceiving billions of users. Despite its claims, it reads users\u2019 messages and shares them with third parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}