{"id":987904,"date":"2026-01-26T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987904"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:31:28","slug":"meta-can-access-all-whatsapp-chats-lawsuit-claims-company-replies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/meta-can-access-all-whatsapp-chats-lawsuit-claims-company-replies\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta can access all WhatsApp chats, lawsuit claims; Company replies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An international group of plaintiffs has reportedly filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta-owned WhatsApp, accusing the company of defrauding billions of users by allegedly maintaining \u2018backdoor\u2019 access to private communications that the company claims are &#8220;end-to-end encryption&#8221; (E2EE). Filed in the US District Court for Northern California, the lawsuit challenges Meta\u2019s marketing of E2EE feature, a security standard which the company claims protects the messages on the app and ensures only the sender and recipient can read a message.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Bloomberg, the lawsuit claims that Meta\u2019s privacy claims are false as the company WhatsApp \u201cstore, analyze, and can access virtually all of WhatsApp users\u2019 purportedly \u2018private\u2019 communications\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international group of plaintiffs has reportedly filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta-owned WhatsApp, accusing the company of defrauding billions of users by allegedly maintaining \u2018backdoor\u2019 access to private communications that the company claims are &#8220;end-to-end encryption&#8221; (E2EE). Filed in the US District Court for Northern California, the lawsuit challenges Meta\u2019s marketing of E2EE feature, a security standard which the company claims protects the messages on the app and ensures only the sender and recipient can read a message. According to a report by Bloomberg, the lawsuit claims that Meta\u2019s privacy claims are false as the company WhatsApp \u201cstore, analyze, [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987904","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=987904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}