Meta has called the claim categorically false and absurd. Photograph: Yui MokPAView image in fullscreenMeta has called the claim categorically false and absurd. Photograph: Yui MokPAUS authorities reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messagesA lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm can access virtually all private communications, a claim the company has deniedUS authorities have reportedly investigated claims that Meta can read users encrypted chats on the WhatsApp messaging platform, which it owns.The reports follow a lawsuit filed last week, which claimed Meta can access virtually all of WhatsApp users purportedly private communications.Meta has denied the allegation, reported by Bloomberg, calling the lawsuits claim categorically false and absurd. It suggested the claim was a tactic to support the NSO Group, an Israeli firm that develops spyware used against activists and journalists, and which recently lost a lawsuit brought by WhatsApp.The firm that filed last weeks lawsuit against Meta, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Sullivan, attributes the allegation to unnamed courageous whistleblowers from Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa.Quinn Emanuel is, in a separate case, helping to represent the NSO Group in its appeal against a judgment from a US federal court last year, which ordered it to pay 167m to WhatsApp for violating its terms of service in its deployment of Pegasus spyware against more than 1,400 users.Were pursuing sanction
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