Texas Sues Meta Over WhatsApp Encryption Claims

The Texas Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging WhatsApp’s long-standing claim of end-to-end encryption is false and that Meta can read users’ messages. The complaint hinges largely on a Bloomberg report and faces skepticism from cryptography experts, who say there’s little evidence of a bypass of E2EE. Meta calls the charges baseless. A 2023 technical review found WhatsApp generally secure with some design flaws, but did not show breach of its encryption promises.