WHATSAPP MESSAGE ENCRYPTION IS DECEPTION: Meta Faces Serious Accusation

February 15, 2026

TL;DR

A collective lawsuit has been filed against Meta, alleging that WhatsApp's encryption is a deception and that Meta can read all encrypted messages.
Plaintiffs claim Meta has access to nearly all messages, even those deleted, through internal systems.
Meta denies the allegations, calling them 'baseless and absurd' and emphasizing their decade-long use of the Signal protocol.
The lawsuit questions the trustworthiness of end-to-end encryption guarantees from closed-source platforms controlled by a single company.
End-to-end encryption theoretically ensures only the sender and receiver can read messages, with decryption keys stored solely on user devices.

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