While we’ve seen no public instances of governments having a backdoor into WhatsApp, in May, the Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group was ordered to pay Meta $167 million after it hacked 1,400 of ...

The House is concerned about the lack of transparency in how WhatsApp handles user data. Meta claps back, saying it’s safer than the alternatives recommended by the House.

In 2022, WhatsApp and Google Play were banned by the Iranian government during nationwide protests after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. Iran restored access to WhatsApp and ...

With “Private Message summaries” WhatsApp introduces a new AI function that summarizes unread messages. The technology wants ...

Even though WhatsApp has strong privacy and security features, it isn’t impenetrable – as Israel has previously shown.

WhatsApp uses Signal's encryption protocol, so your chats and calls are just as end-to-end encrypted as those on Signal. But the main distinction between Signal and WhatsApp is that the latter ...

Meta’s messaging platform joins growing list of restricted applications as officials cite data transparency issues ...