Elon Musk has reignited the privacy fight around Meta-owned WhatsApp, posting on X that the messaging app “is not secure” and urging people to use X Chat instead.
His comment followed fresh whistleblower-linked claims and a lawsuit that challenges WhatsApp’s long-running pitch that end-to-end encryption keeps messages private from the company itself.
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The legal action, filed in the US District Court in San Francisco by an international group of plaintiffs. alleges Meta and WhatsApp have misled users about how private their chats really are. The suit claims the companies “store, analyze, and can access” users’ supposedly private communications, contradicting public assurances that only the sender and recipient can read messages.
Meta has rejected the allegations, calling the case frivolous and saying it intends to seek sanctions against the plaintiffs’ counsel.
