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Whatsapp is E2E encrypted isn't it.
But the app is closed source, so you can't know that Facebook isn't intercepting it at either end.
Exactly, both end points are blackboxes compromised by Facebook.
Isn't the option to backup whatsapp data to Gdrive encrypted opt-in?
"Encrypted"