Senators ask Mark Zuckerberg questions about WhatsApp security

(NYT) — Three senior Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday demanding responses to whistleblower allegations about security and privacy flaws on the messaging app WhatsApp.

In their letter, Sens. Charles Grassley of Iowa, Josh Hawley of Missouri and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee asked Zuckerberg to address whether Meta had violated a settlement with federal regulators by allowing major security vulnerabilities in the company’s messaging app without informing shareholders and the public of the risks.

The letter comes days after the former head of security for WhatsApp sued Meta, which owns the messaging app, claiming it had allowed thousands of employees to have access to the sensitive dat

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