Meta Hit With Consumer Suit Over Access to WhatsApp Messages (1)

Meta Platforms Inc. is facing a consumer lawsuit alleging the technology company illegally intercepted, read, and stored the personal messages of users of its WhatsApp platform in violation of promises that only the sender and the recipient of messages would be able to read them.

Lead plaintiffs Brian Shirazi and Nida Samson alleged that WhatsApp has consistently marketed itself since its founding in 2009 as a private and secure messaging service with end-to-end encryption and a commitment to keeping user messages secure, even from WhatsApp itself, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern ...