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submitted 7 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

An international group of plaintiffs is suing Meta, alleging that WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption isn't actually private. Lawyers are asking the court to certify a class-action.

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[-] berty@feddit.org 16 points 7 months ago

Reminder: whatsapp chat backups (to google account) are unecrypted by default unless you opt in for encryption and write down a very long rescue passphrase.

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