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Is your WhatsApp secure? What exactly is the confusion of privacy and end-to-end encryption?

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: October 28, 2021 11:13 IST

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After the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, WhatsApp chat was used to find drug connections in Bollywood. WhatsApp chats of Riya Chakraborty and Deepika Padukone were also checked.
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Since then, various claims are being made about Aryan Khan in the cruise case through the WhatsApp chat of 2017; But this raises the question, can WhatsApp chat be read by others? What are privacy and end-to-end encryption?
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No one else can read the chat user are doing on WhatsApp. It is end-to-end encrypted. Such coding is also available for third-party backups.
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WhatsApp says the data is highly secure. The company claims that even WhatsApp can't read your conversations.
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If the user doesn't want anyone else to read their chat, then turn off the backup option; Because if the user ever wants a chat backup, they can request WhatsApp.
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Suppose, if user WhatsApp is deleted, then this backup is useful to recover all the previous chats.
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If users are backing up a chat, it is more likely to be leaked.
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Even if users deletes those chats, they can still be found in the back of the person in front of you. It is understood that Aryan's chat was similarly backed up.
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