Sputnik
By Max Gorbatchev – September 8, 2021
The social media giant purchased the messaging service, used by approximately 2 billion users worldwide, in 2014. WhatsApp has made privacy one of its most important features and introduced measures to prevent users’ information from falling into the wrong hands.
When in 2019 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company’s new privacy-focused policy, he mentioned WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, which he said made it impossible even for the messaging service itself to access users’ messages and their content, let alone Facebook.