Durov points out that WhatsApp implemented end-to-end encryption in 2016. Representatives of Meta claim that this technology ensures access to messages only for their participants and excludes the possibility of third-party interference, including the messenger itself.
“In 2026, believing in the security of WhatsApp is a sign of complete ignorance,” Durov wrote on social media.
“After studying how WhatsApp implements its ‘encryption’, we found numerous vulnerabilities,” he added on “X”.
Nevertheless, some users, for example, from Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico, and South Africa, are filing lawsuits, claiming that the company stores and analyzes the content of their messages and can access them.
A Meta representative, Andy Stone, dismissed these accusations as “not serious” and emphasized that claims of insufficient encryption are “categorically false,” reminding that WhatsApp has been using the Signal protocol for nearly ten years.
In turn, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) invited Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and high-profile company executives to parliament to explain the allegations of user surveillance.
