[tomgaga]

I think this statement is being misunderstood by a lot of people here.

The Google Drive backup is most likely still encrypted, just not "end to end" because the key needs to be stored on a Facebook server.

That makes a lot more sense to me.

[beagle3]

I don’t follow this closely, and this may have changed recently but As of 6 months ago, people have managed to download an unencrypted copy from Google Drive by impersonating the WhatsApp app.