How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees

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WhatsApp is committed to helping people stay safe while protecting the privacy of their messages. As scam tactics evolve — from impersonation to social engineering to AI-generated lures — we’re always evolving as well, so that our protections stay ahead of scammers while protecting people’s personal messages with end-to-end encryption. Today, we’re sharing an early [...] Read More... The post How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

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