{"id":252021,"date":"2026-05-21T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/texas-sues-meta-whatsapp-over-encryption-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:45:09","slug":"texas-sues-meta-whatsapp-over-encryption-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/texas-sues-meta-whatsapp-over-encryption-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas sues Meta, WhatsApp over encryption privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sg.finance.yahoo.com\/video\/texas-sues-meta-whatsapp-over-034057132.html\">Texas sues Meta, WhatsApp over encryption privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sg.finance.yahoo.com\/video\/texas-sues-meta-whatsapp-over-034057132.html\">https:\/\/sg.finance.yahoo.com\/video\/texas-sues-meta-whatsapp-over-034057132.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 23:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"sg.finance.yahoo.com\">sg.finance.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reuters Videos <\/p>\n<p> Thu, 21 May 2026 at 10:40 pm GMT-5 <\/p>\n<p>            <span>STORY: Texas is suing WhatsApp and parent firm Meta.<\/span><span>The state says they misled consumers over the messaging app\u2019s encryption and privacy standards.<\/span><span>In a statement Thursday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said \u201cWhatsApp markets its services as secure and encrypted, but it does not deliver on those promises\u201d.<\/span><span>The lawsuit says users are given false assurance that their messages are encrypted, even though Meta and WhatsApp have access to \u201cvirtually all\u201d private communications on the app.<\/span><span>A Meta spokesman called the allegations \u201cfalse\u201d, and said that WhatsApp cannot access people\u2019s encrypted messages.<\/span><span>The suit seeks a court order barring access to Texans\u2019 communications without their consent.<\/span><span>It also demands monetary penalties.<\/span><span>The legal action cites reports about a federal probe into claims that Meta had access to unencrypted WhatsApp messages.<\/span><span>It also refers to a whistleblower report to U.S. financial watchdogs.<\/span><span>Paxton\u2019s office has previously filed similar claims against big companies, including one against Google.<\/span><span>Last year the search giant agreed to pay $1.375 billion to settle claims that it violated users\u2019 data privacy.<\/span>        <span class=\"article-footer yf-127tkty\">       <\/span><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sg.finance.yahoo.com\/video\/texas-sues-meta-whatsapp-over-034057132.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas sues Meta, WhatsApp over encryption privacy https:\/\/sg.finance.yahoo.com\/video\/texas-sues-meta-whatsapp-over-034057132.html Publish Date: 2026-05-21 23:40:00 Source Domain: sg.finance.yahoo.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/KdWSYQD6AFqOmBFKrym82A--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD02NzU-\/https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/jit\/6415665815001\/a7f8d67d-3d49-4623-b7c5-7db8b2a6fb63\/main\/1280x720\/39s978ms\/match\/image.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252023,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252021\/revisions\/252023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}