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Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has made a sharp attack on WhatsApp over the app’s promise of end-to-end encryption. Durov accused the company of not only reading users’ private messages but also sharing them with third-party services and called it the \u2018biggest consumer fraud in history\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Durov<\/a> wrote, \u201cWhatsApp\u2019s \u201cencryption\u201d may be the biggest consumer fraud in history \u2014 deceiving billions of users. Despite its claims, it reads users\u2019 messages and shares them with third parties. Telegram has never done this \u2014 and never will \ud83e\udd1d\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The message by Durov came shortly after xAI chief Elon Musk<\/a> attacked the personal messaging app as well, stating that \u201cWhatsApp cannot be trusted\u201d and urged users to switch to X Chat instead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n While Meta is yet to respond to the post by Durov, the company did respond to the controversy on Musk’s post, writing, \u201cThe claims in this lawsuit are categorically false and absurd. WhatsApp has been end-to-end encrypted using the Signal protocol for a decade, so your messages cannot be read by anyone other than the sender and recipient.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n WhatsApp<\/a> has faced the wrath of Musk and Durov after a fresh class action lawsuit was filed against its parent company Meta, which claims that it had discreetly allowed its employees and some third-party contractors to intercept, read, and store WhatsApp messages of users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The lawsuit quoted by Durov in his post (via Classaction.org) reads, \u201cNowhere does WhatsApp disclose that it, Meta<\/a>, their respective employees, Accenture contractors, and\/or third parties may read, access, or view the contents of all messages users send on WhatsApp, nor that app messages sent by users are intercepted and stored,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “WhatsApp\/Meta employees had backdoor access to all WhatsApp<\/a> user messages from which they pulled messages to provide to outside investigators in response to requests regarding criminal investigations and\/or to Accenture reviewers to review for criminal investigations and\/or investigations into violations of company policies,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nWhy is WhatsApp under attack?<\/h2>\n