Texas sues Meta, WhatsApp over encryption privacy claims

This is a good summary of the Whatsapp situation: The Strange Truth Behind The New WhatsApp Privacy Lawsuits In summary, there is probably no “real” backdoor allowing Whatsapp employees to read your messages. But unencrypted cloud backups (to Apple and Google) are enabled by default and most users won’t change these settings to enable E2EE for cloud backups - meaning law enforcement can request chat data from Apple/Google. Also, if a user reports a message to Whatsapp, that message and a few adjacent messages will be forwarded to Meta (which in my opinion is not a breach of E2EE per se, just how taking a screenshot isn’t).