Attorney General Ken Paxton has accused the popular messaging app of falsely claiming that chats are inaccessible to third parties
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed what he described as a “landmark” lawsuit against Meta, accusing the company of “falsely claiming” that WhatsApp messages are encrypted and inaccessible to third parties, including its own employees.
The messaging app, acquired by Meta in 2014, states on its website that “no one outside of the chat, not even WhatsApp, can read, listen to, or share what a user says.”
On Thursday, the Texas Attorney General’s office announced that Paxton had initiated legal proceedings against Meta, accusing the company of having “misled consumers regarding the strength and scope of its privacy protections” for WhatsApp.
The lawsuit argues that Meta’s promotional materials claiming that it uses end-to-end encryption “have led millions of users to believe their communications are fully private.”
The Texas Attorney General’s office, citing media reports and whistleblower accounts, argued that those claims were “blatantly inaccurate” and amounted to a “complete and total misrepresentation of Meta’s privacy policies.”
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