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Title: WhatsApp announces end-to-end encrypted backups on iCloud Post by: HCK on September 11, 2021, 04:05:18 pm WhatsApp announces end-to-end encrypted backups on iCloud
"WhatsApp is the leading global messaging service to offer both end-to-end encrypted messaging and backups on iCloud or Google Drive" What you need to know WhatsApp has just made a massive security announcement. The company is going to offer end-to-end encryption on cloud backups to iCloud and Google Drive. The feature is on its way in the coming weeks. WhatsApp has today announced that it is bringing end-to-end encrypted chat backups to iCloud and Google Drive. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted stating: We're adding another layer of privacy and security to WhatsApp: an end-to-end encryption option for the backups people choose to store in Google Drive or iCloud. WhatsApp is the first global messaging service at this scale to offer end-to-end encrypted messaging and backups, and getting there was a really hard technical challenge that required an entirely new framework for key storage and cloud storage across operating systems. It means users will now have the option t... Source: WhatsApp announces end-to-end encrypted backups on iCloud (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/U9A-aS5Tntg/whatsapp-announces-end-end-encrypted-backups-icloud) |