WhatsApp users will now be able to protect their chat backups using end-to-end encryption 

The Facebook-owned company announced that it would now offer end-to-end encryption to chat backups in Google Drive and iCloud as well.

WhatsApp has added a new layer of security to its messaging app. The Facebook-owned company announced that it would now offer end-to-end encryption to chat backups in Google Drive and iCloud as well. Earlier, only the WhatsApp chats were end-to-end encrypted meaning nobody other than the sender and the receiver can access the chats. Not even WhatsApp or Facebook. WhatsApp has said that it has become the only large-scale messaging app to offer end-to-end encryption to chat backups as well. Announcing the new development, Facebook Mark Zuckerberg said, “We’re adding another layer of privacy and security to WhatsApp: an end-to-end encryption option for the backups people choose to store in Google Drive or iCloud. WhatsApp is the first global messaging service at this scale to offer end-to-end encrypted messaging and backups, and getting there was a really hard technical challenge that required an entirely new framework for key storage and cloud storage across operating systems.”