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Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday against Meta and its platform WhatsApp over privacy concerns, alleging the social media giant has lied to and deceived the Lone Star State\u2019s residents.<\/p>\n

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The states that WhatsApp markets its service to use end-to-end encryption, which means only the sender and receiver can access the messages. However, insider accounts have reported claims of the Mark Zuckerberg-founded Meta presenting WhatsApp as encrypted to be false according to the suit and a Thursday press release\u00a0from Paxton\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatsApp markets its services as secure and encrypted, but it does not deliver on those promises. I am suing to protect Texans\u2019 privacy and ensure that WhatsApp by Meta does not mislead Texans by unlawfully accessing private conversations and data,\u201d Paxton said in his press release. (RELATED: Trump Endorses Ken Paxton For Texas GOP Senate Nominee)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paxton is bringing these claims under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act for WhatsApp allegedly misleading users by claiming that their conversations are encrypted, the Texas Tribune reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp, your personal messages and calls are secured with a lock. Only you and the person you\u2019re talking to can read or listen to them, and no one else, not even WhatsApp,\u201d WhatsApp states\u00a0on its website.<\/p>\n

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Texas\u2019 lawsuit calls these claims into question.<\/p>\n

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GOP Texas Senate Candidate Ken Paxton arrives at a watch party on March 3, 2026 in Dallas, Texas. Paxton is facing off against numerous candidates including incumbent Senator John Cornyn in the Republican Senate primary. (Photo by Sergio Flores\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWhatsApp and its parent company, Meta, have access to virtually all of WhatsApp users\u2019 purportedly \u2018private\u2019 communications,\u201d the lawsuit claims.<\/p>\n

Texas is requesting that there be an order preventing WhatsApp from accessing the content of Texans\u2019 messages and for civil penalties of $10,000 per violation, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTexans deserve to know whether their private communications are indeed truly private,\u201d Paxton said in his press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatsApp cannot access people\u2019s encrypted communications, and any suggestion to the contrary is false. We will fight this suit as we continue defending our strong record on protecting people\u2019s messages,\u201d Margarita Franklin, a WhatsApp spokesperson, said to the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement.<\/p>\n

Paxton\u2019s office did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for additional comment.<\/p>\n

Paxton has sued several companies on behalf of Texas. On May 11, Paxton sued Netflix, accusing it of using users\u2019 data without their consent, the Texas Tribune reported.<\/p>\n

Back in 2024, Meta paid Texas $1.4 billion after Paxton filed a lawsuit accusing the company of using facial recognition technology without users\u2019 consent, according to a press release from the attorney general\u2019s office at the time. A lawsuit against Google was also settled last year for $1.4 billion that accused Google of collecting users\u2019 data without their consent, according to the Texas Tribune.<\/p>\n

Paxton is a notably candidate for Texas\u2019 U.S. Senate seat and received President Donald Trump endorsement on Tuesday, ahead of his May 26 GOP primary runoff election against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.<\/p>\n

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