WhatsApp's 'end-to-end' encryption claim may not be true

One of the biggest announcements to come this week has been WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption. Now, end-to-end encryption essentially means the video, photo, messages or just about any data will be encrypted to ensure only the sender and recipient views it. “When you use the WhatsApp Service, our servers log certain general information that our application sends whenever a message is sent or received, or if you update or request any status information, including time and date stamps and the mobile phone numbers the messages were sent from and to,”. “Although many protocols and additional measurements can be used to make the hackers job harder, end-to-end encryption is never guaranteed to be full proof,” he further argues. With the backdrop of the ongoing Apple-FBI battle, WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption caused quite a stir in the tech world.