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UK Home Sec: Give us a snoop-around for WhatApp encryption. Don't worry, we won't go into the cloud

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"My money is on "end-to-end encryption" being nothing more than a marketing term."

I imagine that either metadata is transferred to Facebook down a second channel while the text of the message is end to end encrypted, or that FB's definition of an endpoint is "Facebook".

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