On Friday, January 23, 2026, an international group of plaintiffs from five continents filed a high-profile lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc. in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Their claim? That Meta, the tech giant behind WhatsApp, has been misleading billions of users about the privacy and security of their messages for years. The allegations strike at the very heart of WhatsApp's brand promise—its much-touted end-to-end encryption.
The plaintiffs, hailing from Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico, and South Africa, accuse Meta and WhatsApp of storing, analyzing, and accessing virtually all so-called "private" messages, despite repeated public assurances that only the sender and recipient can ever read them. According to Bloomberg, the lawsuit contends that Meta’s privacy statements are not just misleading—they’re outright false. The plaintiffs insist that Meta’s systems and employees have access to user content, and they cite unnamed whistleblowers as having brought these issues to light.
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