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Over the past year, Meta has blanketed TV screens around the world with commercials touting the privacy of Whatsapp, its encrypted messenger with a monthly user base of 3 billion people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s private,\u201d one ad<\/a> campaign featuring the former cast of the Modern Family<\/em> TV show says. \u201cOn Whatsapp, no one can see or hear your personal messages \u2026 not even us,\u201d a different series of ads declares.<\/p>\n

\u201cSerious risks to user data\u201d<\/h2>\n

On Monday, the former head of security for the Meta-owed messaging app filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit that tells a far different narrative. The suit, filed in US District Court for the District of Northern California, recites a litany of purported security and privacy flaws that Meta not only didn\u2019t fix after becoming aware of them, but also kept secret, allegedly in violation of a $5 billion settlement<\/a> then-Whatsapp parent company Facebook reached with the Federal Trade Commission. The complaint was filed by Attaullah Baig, who became head of WhatsApp security in 2021.<\/p>\n

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Over the past year, Meta has blanketed TV screens around the world with commercials touting the privacy of Whatsapp, its encrypted messenger with a monthly user base of 3 billion people. \u201cIt\u2019s private,\u201d one ad campaign featuring the former cast of the Modern Family TV show says. \u201cOn Whatsapp, no one can see or hear your personal messages \u2026 not even us,\u201d a different series of ads declares. \u201cSerious risks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"\nFormer WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta\u2019s culture to a \u201ccult\u201d - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/former-whatsapp-security-boss-in-lawsuit-likens-metas-culture-to-a-cult\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta\u2019s culture to a \u201ccult\u201d - 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