This controversy started when Meta released a new privacy policy for WhatsApp. There was a lot of controversy over this privacy policy and many apps like Telegram and Signal were blocked, although even today the popularity of WhatsApp is much higher than any other multimedia messaging app.

WhatsApp News: Questions have always been raised regarding the security of WhatsApp. Meta claims that WhatsApp cannot be hacked and its messages cannot be read, because its chatting is end-to-end encrypted but many times these claims of Meta have proved to be hollow.

Now WhatsApp is taking its encryption one step further. Till now, when you start a chat for the first time, you get a notification of Encryption that your chat is completely encrypted, that is, no one can see your message, not even WhatsApp.
Now this is going to change.

After the new update, while chatting in WhatsApp, you will see along with your name whether your chatting is encrypted or not. This information has been given by WABetaInfo, which tracks the features of WhatsApp.

WhatsApp News: The new feature can be seen on Android version 2.24.3.17 of WhatsApp. The encryption lock is also visible in the screenshot. This lock will be visible only where the last seen of a contact is visible.

📝 WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.6.11: what's new?

WhatsApp is rolling out a feature to indicate when chats are end-to-end encrypted, and it’s available to some beta testers!
Some users can get this feature by installing the previous updates.https://t.co/g2i5S7d9R1 pic.twitter.com/KsTa13z0BO
— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) March 9, 2024

Let us remind you that there has been a controversy regarding the privacy of WhatsApp since the year 2021. This controversy started when Meta released a new privacy policy for WhatsApp.

There was a lot of controversy over this privacy policy and many apps like Telegram and Signal were blocked, although even today the popularity of WhatsApp is much higher than any other multimedia messaging app.