WhatsApp said it would extend messaging encryption to backups of chats when they are stored on Apple and Google’s cloud services, giving users additional privacy protections
two billion users additional protections
“If you save a copy of your messages, with Apple or Google, [you] save it in a way where they have no way to read it,” said Will Cathcart, the head of WhatsApp. WhatsApp isn’t turning this encrypted backup feature on by default—people who want it will need to select it in the app’s chat settings and then come up with a password that could be used to unlock the encrypted backup. The servers that will verify this password and manage the backups’ encryption keys will reside in Facebook’s U.S. and European data centers, the company said.
In the coming months, the company is planning to offer businesses a way of managing WhatsApp conversations with their customers. Although WhatsApp had previously said that it wouldn’t store user messages on its servers, the service for businesses would store WhatsApp messages on Facebook’s servers. Those businesses could then use that information to create Facebook ads, according to the company.
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