Overview

• WhatsApp’s latest Android beta adds a “Summarize with Meta AI” option for unread messages across one-on-one chats, groups, and channels.
• Meta implements Private Processing to process summarization requests in the cloud without retaining message content.
• Experts, including NordVPN’s Adrianus Warmenhoven, caution that external processing of encrypted chats still poses privacy risks.
• The EU’s GDPR guidelines shaped this rollout and the May 26 deadline to opt out of AI training data usage has now passed.
• Users can activate extended chat privacy to disable AI functions and are advised not to share sensitive information with the AI bot.