{"id":989344,"date":"2026-02-02T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989344"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:21:12","slug":"report-claims-whatsapp-biggest-security-promise-to-users-under-investigation-in-the-us-company-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/report-claims-whatsapp-biggest-security-promise-to-users-under-investigation-in-the-us-company-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Report claims WhatsApp &#8216;biggest security promise&#8217; to users under investigation in the US, company responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bloomberg report recently said that the US is investigating allegations by former Meta contractors that its personnel can access WhatsApp messages despite claiming end-to-end encryption for all messages and calls. Citing law enforcement records, the report said that the former contractors claim that \u201cthey and some Meta staff had \u201cunfettered\u201d access to WhatsApp messages \u2014 were being examined by special agents with the US Department of Commerce\u201d. The company has now responded to the report calling it \u201cfalse\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>What WhatsApp says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bloomberg report recently said that the US is investigating allegations by former Meta contractors that its personnel can access WhatsApp messages despite claiming end-to-end encryption for all messages and calls. Citing law enforcement records, the report said that the former contractors claim that \u201cthey and some Meta staff had \u201cunfettered\u201d access to WhatsApp messages \u2014 were being examined by special agents with the US Department of Commerce\u201d. The company has now responded to the report calling it \u201cfalse\u201d. What WhatsApp says<\/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-989344","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\/989344","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=989344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}