WhatsApp now has advanced security, any communication done on the platform is completely secure.
Amid all the debates circling around privacy and data encryption that most of the technology companies have been caught up in, Facebook Inc. has rolled out advanced encryption for its mobile messaging app, WhatsApp. To ensure maximum security in its data encryption initiative, the social media network has taken almost one and a half year to roll out the perfect update.
Strong end-to-end encryption has been activated on the mobile messaging app across all mobile platforms. In order to get this latest update, WhatsApp users are required to upgrade their WhatsApp version to the latest one. All content, communication and media that will be shared on the messaging platform will now be protected by default. By protection here, we mean that even the company itself will not be able to access the data shared across the platform.
Facebook’s subsidiary has crossed the one billion user’s mark earlier this year, so it is safe to say that over one seventh of the world’s population is active on the mobile messaging app now – and all these users now have strong encryption security which means that it’s a milestone achieved in both the tech industry as well as the US authorities.
The encryption status is usually seen by a user at the top of the chat since the apps client makes the user aware of the chat’s encryption status. This will serve as a transitional phase for all the users since the encryption message will be right in their face on the chat. However, it should be mentioned that all those users that do not have the latest version of WhatsApp, they will not be able to access the new end-to-end encrypted security.
With the help of this latest development, any content exchanged via communication on the platform is not being stored on the company’s servers. Furthermore, the company does not even hold a decryption keys for these chats. It’s quite evident what the company has tried to do, they don’t want to be able to give any data to the authorities even if they have a warrant for it.
Recently, there was dispute between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the technology giant over an iPhone that belonged to one of the suspects in the San Bernardino Attack back in December. There was dispute because the government wanted the company to unlock the iPhone so that the authorities can get access to the data on the suspect’s smartphone however the company decline to comply. Apple helped the authorities as much as it could however when it came to creating a backdoor in the encrypted data stored on the device, the tech giant declined to do so.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp came up with it’s on advanced encryption software, it is the latest method of securing all forms of communication done on the platform. Many companies were in the favor of Apple during that showdown between the two.
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