WhatsApp & Metadata --- Although WhatsApp encrypts the conversations of its users 'end-to-end', they are still under scrutiny for their security practices, because while it is true that no one can read the content of your messages on WhatsApp, since the company stores our metadata - information related to who sent the message, location etc. - it is still often enough information to become an identifier, putting its users under some risk (unlike companies like Signal). While encryption is important, it is also important how data and information about the encryption is handled.

Source author: Pavitra Ramanujam pavitra.ramanujam@gmail.com