WhatsApp has recently become Brazil’s primary means of communicating among mobile users. Meanwhile, WhatsApp just announced the addition of encryption to ensure the protection of privacy of its users.
WhatsApp are now encrypting end-to-end user data according to their blog post. That means the messages sent by the service's more than 1 billion users are scrambled up as they travel through WhatsApp's systems and across the Internet, and only the recipient can see or hear them. That's sure to add tension to the already high-stakes encryption debate raging between Silicon Valley and the US Federal government. The issue at stake is whether government investigators should have a way to pry into our data and communications. Tech companies say no.
“Earlier this week WhatsApp turned seven years old. It has been an amazing journey and in the coming months we're putting an even greater emphasis on security features and more ways to stay in touch with the people that you care about.” WhatsApp told about, in their blog.
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