Judge Moves to Dismiss Suit That Alleges WhatsApp's E2E Encryption Is a Sham
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that alleged WhatsApp can secretly bypass end-to-end encryption to view users' messages due to a lack of evidence. The lawsuit, filed in January, originally claimed that unnamed whistleblowers had uncovered WhatsApp’s ability to circumvent the encryption. Instead, the encryption keys are stored on the devices that send and receive the messages.
- ▪A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that alleged WhatsApp can secretly bypass end-to-end encryption to view users' messages due to a lack of evidence.
- ▪The lawsuit, filed in January, originally claimed that unnamed whistleblowers had uncovered WhatsApp’s ability to circumvent the encryption.
- ▪Instead, the encryption keys are stored on the devices that send and receive the messages.
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A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that alleged WhatsApp can secretly bypass end-to-end encryption to view users' messages due to a lack of evidence. The lawsuit, filed in January, originally claimed that unnamed whistleblowers had uncovered WhatsApp’s ability to circumvent the encryption. But on Thursday, US District Judge Rita Lin found that, “There is still insufficient information in the complaint about the basis for the whistleblowers’ knowledge for the claims to be viable as currently pled.” She added: "Though Plaintiffs need not identify the whistleblowers to plead a plausible basis for their claims, they do need to provide some facts supporting an inference that the whistleblowers have firsthand knowledge or some other reliable basis for their accusations." You May Also Like…
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