US EditionUK investigates Meta's compliance with WhatsApp data requests
Ofcom’s investigation concerns Meta’s accuracy in responding to statutory data requests about WhatsApp Business, with enforcement possible under the Communications Act 2003.
- On Jan 23, plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in San Francisco against Meta Platforms, Inc., alleging false privacy claims about WhatsApp by plaintiffs from Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa.
- Meta Platforms, Inc. describes end-to-end encryption as central to WhatsApp, which has used the Signal protocol for about a decade and notifies users that `only people in this chat can read, listen to, or share` messages.
- Plaintiffs contend that WhatsApp message content is stored and accessible to workers, alleging Meta Platforms, Inc. and WhatsApp store, analyse, and can access virtually all user communications, citing unspecified whistleblowers.
- A Meta spokesperson dismissed the case as `frivolous` and said Meta Platforms, Inc. `will pursue sanctions against plaintiffs' counsel`, calling claims about encryption `categorically false and absurd`.
- Plaintiffs have asked the court to certify the case as a class action while attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Keller Postman did not respond, and Jay Barnett declined comment on Jan 24.
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An international group has sued Meta for providing false information about the privacy and security of its chat service WhatsApp. But Meta calls the allegations “categorically false and absurd,” Bloomberg reports.
'Frivolous' Meta to lawsuit alleging privacy violations in WhatsApp
A lawsuit against Meta in the US has alleged that its privacy claims are false and Meta and WhatsApp “store, analyse, and can access virtually all of WhatsApp users’ ‘private’ communications” — a claim that has been dismissed by the company as a “frivolous work of fiction”. A group of plaintiffs in the lawsuit, filed in US District Court in San Francisco, accused the social media giant and their leaders of “defrauding WhatsApp’s billions of user…
An international group of plaintiffs filed a class action with Meta Platforms before the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, accusing her of cheating the Messenger WhatsApp.
An international group, with authors from Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa, entered into a judicial action against the Meta, claiming that Mark Zuckerberg's company has made false statements about the privacy and security of the WhatsApp message service. The Meta has transformed the encryption call “from bridge” into a central element of whatsApp's set of functions, offering a kind of protection that, in the essence, means that …
The company was accused of having access to WhatsApp's private messages.
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