Overview

• Attaullah Baig filed a federal suit in San Francisco alleging WhatsApp violated obligations tied to Meta’s prior FTC settlement.
• His complaint says about 1,500 WhatsApp developers had unrestricted access to sensitive user data such as IP addresses, contact details, location data and profile photos.
• Baig alleges the company lacks a complete inventory of collected user data, has no system inventory or access monitoring, and falls short of GDPR requirements.
• He claims roughly 100,000 accounts are taken over each day due to insufficient countermeasures and describes a severely undersized security team in 2021.
• Baig says he raised concerns internally and with the Department of Labor and the SEC before his termination, while Meta disputes his account and says the labor authority dismissed his complaint.