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WhatsApp turns on end-to-end encryption for its 1 billion users

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Start date Apr 5, 2016

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Apr 5, 2016

The Facebook-owned WhatsApp has announced that going forward, messages, voice calls, and sharing of photos and videos, are now encrypted end-to-end. Now people using WhatsApp on any platform can send anything to another user, and it will be inaccessible to anyone except the recipient. Not even WhatsApp itself can get in.

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