WhatsApp adds end-to-end encryption, meaning that governments can't look at users messages even if they want to Encryption is at the heart of an ongoing battle between governments and tech companies – and WhatsApp's apparently minor update is a major step in that ongoing battle. WhatsApp has added end-to-end encryption to all of its messages – meaning that the company couldn't give information to governments, even if it wanted to. The latest version of the app will use security technology that means that messages can't be intercepted as they travel between devices. Encryption ensures that only a message's sender and recipient can read messages, stopping them from being intercepted on their journey. That fact has meant that strong, or end-to-end, encryption has led to public disagreements between technology companies and governments. In the UK, politicians have proposed banning such technologies, forcing companies to install "backdoors" that would weaken that security so that messages can be read by spies. WhatsApp said that it had added the new, stronger measures across its messages because it "has always prioritized making your data and communication as secure as possible". "From now on when you and your contacts use the latest version of the app, every call you make, and every message, photo, video, file, and voice message you send, is end-to-end encrypted by default, including group chats," it wrote in a blog post announcing the change.
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