Facebook Insists No Security ‘Backdoor’ Is Planned for WhatsApp

The company is fighting back against rumors that it would scan messages on users’ phones prior to encryption

Yael Grauer
OneZero
Published in
5 min readAug 2, 2019

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BBillions of people use the messaging tool WhatsApp, which added end-to-end encryption for every form of communication available on its platform back in 2016. This ensures that…

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Yael Grauer
OneZero

I’m an investigative reporter covering technology, online privacy and security, hacking and digital freedom. yael@yaelwrites.com