WhatsApp / Security / E2EE description
WhatsApp changed its Security / E2EE description
Recorded, not announced. This change is page furniture rather than
policy: 6 short labels, no prose and no tracked vocabulary: "Android", "iPhone", "Mac/PC", "Mobile", "Desktop", "Tablet". It is kept because the archive records every change to a tracked
document, but subscribers were not emailed about it. Anything containing a sentence, or any of the
scanning and encryption vocabulary this archive follows, is always announced.
Recorded 27 Aug 2026 — +3 lines added, −3 removed. This page shows the exact difference between the previous snapshot and the new one.
@@ -116,9 +116,9 @@ Privacy
Use WhatsApp -Android-iPhone-Mac/PC+Mobile+Desktop+Tablet WhatsApp Web Need help?
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ScanRecords. “WhatsApp changed its Security / E2EE description.” Recorded 27 Aug 2026. https://scanrecords.org/change/2026-08-27-whatsapp-security/ — snapshot SHA-256 (after): bffcf2387d59f46815d997192a7f77e99206c4c796541705f7f6bfadf6087b7c.