{"id":987651,"date":"2026-01-26T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987651"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:27:05","slug":"meta-accused-of-accessing-whatsapp-chats-despite-making-end-to-end-encryption-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/meta-accused-of-accessing-whatsapp-chats-despite-making-end-to-end-encryption-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta accused of accessing WhatsApp chats, despite making end-to-end encryption claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of WhatsApp users from multiple countries has filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc., alleging that the company falsely promotes end-to-end encryption while secretly storing, analysing, and accessing the content of private chats, constituting a serious breach of user privacy. <\/p>\n<p>The class-action complaint, lodged in the US District Court in San Francisco, involves plaintiffs from Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico, and South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of WhatsApp users from multiple countries has filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc., alleging that the company falsely promotes end-to-end encryption while secretly storing, analysing, and accessing the content of private chats, constituting a serious breach of user privacy. The class-action complaint, lodged in the US District Court in San Francisco, involves plaintiffs from Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico, and South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987651","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}