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An international group of plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms (META.O), accusing the company of making false statements about the privacy and security of its WhatsApp messaging service. Meta has promoted so-called "end-to-end" encryption as a core feature of WhatsApp, which means that only the sender and recipient can read the messages, and the company itself cannot access them. The company claims that this encryption feature is enabled by default, and that messages within the app can only be read, listened to, or shared by people within the chat. The plaintiff group filed the lawsuit on Friday in the San Francisco US District Court, alleging that Meta's privacy statements were false. They claim that Meta and WhatsApp store, analyze, and have almost access to all WhatsApp user's so-called private communication and accuse the company and its executives of deceiving billions of WhatsApp users worldwide. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in an email that the lawsuit is baseless and that the company will seek sanctions against the plaintiffs' lawyers.