{"id":988581,"date":"2026-01-29T11:23:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988581"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:53:57","slug":"whatsapp-chief-will-cathcart-hits-back-at-elon-musk-over-app-not-secure-remark-amid-meta-privacy-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/whatsapp-chief-will-cathcart-hits-back-at-elon-musk-over-app-not-secure-remark-amid-meta-privacy-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart hits back at Elon Musk over app &#8216;not secure&#8217; remark amid Meta privacy lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has pushed back on allegations that it can secretly read users&#8217; private messages on WhatsApp, with the messaging platform&#8217;s head, Will Cathcart, dismissing the claims as \u2018totally false\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Cathcart&#8217;s remarks were directly aimed at billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s claims that WhatsApp is \u2018not safe\u2019, and that users should rather switch to X&#8217;s messaging service as a safer alternative for communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has pushed back on allegations that it can secretly read users&#8217; private messages on WhatsApp, with the messaging platform&#8217;s head, Will Cathcart, dismissing the claims as \u2018totally false\u2019. Cathcart&#8217;s remarks were directly aimed at billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s claims that WhatsApp is \u2018not safe\u2019, and that users should rather switch to X&#8217;s messaging service as a safer alternative for communication.<\/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-988581","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\/988581","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=988581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}