WhatsApp's backups were stored on Google Cloud. WhatsApp now allows encrypted backups. Google now wants money to backup WhatsApp. So they were reading the backups?

Hey all. I had no idea that WhatsApp didn't encrypt their backups which are stored on Google servers, but recently I got a message saying that I can now go in backup settings and and encrypt the backups. I enabled encryption last week and now this week I got an email from Google saying that my WhatsApp backups will now start counting towards the 15gb they give for free for all their services and since my backup is 4gb it …

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