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by roncesvalles 816 days ago
Although the frank meaning of "E2E encryption" is that a message is encrypted on the sender's device and only decrypted on the intended recipient's device, that is never ever what big tech companies mean when they use this term.

For one, this would remove companies' ability to support lawful interception, which puts them afoul of American law.

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Is lawful interception possible with Whatsapp? I thought it had actual E2E encryption.