WhatsApp's CEO does not wish to change the app's security policy under any government regulation, especially the UK Online Safety Bill. He claims that the bill makes the app less desirable for users.
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Earlier this week, WhatsApp officially announced multi-device support and soon after the company started rolling it out to beta users. We took the feature for a spin to try it out for ourselves.
After more than a year of testing, WhatsApp is finally rolling out the ability to encrypt chat backups before uploading them to Google Drive offering extra security to WhatsApp users.