{"id":988270,"date":"2026-01-28T11:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988270"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:28:05","slug":"elon-musk-says-whatsapp-is-not-secure-amid-meta-privacy-lawsuit-sridhar-vembu-cites-conflict-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/elon-musk-says-whatsapp-is-not-secure-amid-meta-privacy-lawsuit-sridhar-vembu-cites-conflict-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says &#8216;WhatsApp is not secure&#8217; amid Meta privacy lawsuit; Sridhar Vembu cites &#8216;conflict of interest&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The privacy row surrounding Meta&#8217;s WhatsApp has triggered sharp reactions across the tech industry, with rival company executives seizing on the lawsuit to question the social media giant&#8217;s handling of user data.<\/p>\n<p>As allegations surface that WhatsApp messages may not be as private as claimed, high-profile figures such as Elon Musk and Zoho\u2019s Sridhar Vembu have publicly targeted Meta in a series of X (formerly Twitter) posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The privacy row surrounding Meta&#8217;s WhatsApp has triggered sharp reactions across the tech industry, with rival company executives seizing on the lawsuit to question the social media giant&#8217;s handling of user data. As allegations surface that WhatsApp messages may not be as private as claimed, high-profile figures such as Elon Musk and Zoho\u2019s Sridhar Vembu have publicly targeted Meta in a series of X (formerly Twitter) posts.<\/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":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988270","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=988270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}