How safe is user privacy in WhatsApp and iMessage, know what is in the new report

In a life full of social media, people are not limited to just one platform. Everyone is active on three-four social media platforms every day, where they know the condition of their loved ones. Observes the activities of others and gets a little entertainment. Some of the apps on these social media platforms are only for messaging. Where chats take place. Photos and videos are shared. But these apps sometimes contain sensitive information of the users, which they want to keep private. A leaked document has revealed that two major chatting apps, WhatsApp and iMessage, share a lot of data with the US intelligence agency FBI.

Rolling Stone’s one Report According to, this information has come from a leaked document of FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). The document revealed that Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage provide the FBI with the most information the FBI can legally obtain from any messaging app.

The document states that WhatsApp, iMessage and Line apps all offered “limited” message content at the FBI’s legal request. Apart from this, these platforms also voluntarily offered ‘some’ data. At the same time, apps like Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WeChat and Wickr did not disclose the message content. According to the information, the popular Android messaging app i.e. WhatsApp shares only basic subscriber records.

In simple terms, this means that the FBI is able to obtain address book data from both their ‘targets’ and their contacts. FBI can also track the source and destination of messages sent from the app. Meaning, if you have saved the contact information of an FBI target, your address book is also available to the FBI for spying. In the case of iMessage service, the situation is even worse. If iMessage users back up their messages on iCloud, the FBI has access to their message content.