Facebook’s WhatsApp boosts end-to-end encryption amid scrutiny
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Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company is expanding end-to-end encryption on its WhatsApp messaging service.
Texts sent on WhatsApp are already protected so that they can only be seen by the sender and recipient. People have been able to back up their messages in the cloud, using Alphabet Inc..’s Google Drive and Apple Inc.’s icloud. But, while WhatsApp doesn’t have access to those backups, Apple and Google potentially do. Now, Facebook will allow users to choose to enable end-to-end encryption on their backups as well, meaning neither WhatsApp nor the cloud-service providers will be able to access them.More Related News