Whatsapp has made a statement that their algorithm is strong and there is no way that it could have been a leak from their end. Whatsapp privacy and encryption levels are very high and cannot be breached. The reason for her leaked chats could be that she herself gave the authorities her password or that the authorities used Mobile Forensic Cloning. This is a method in which the binary data of a cell phone is copied to get access to the data. All our data (chats, pictures etc) are stored in our device in a binary code made up of 1s and 0s and this can be recovered. Under 65B of the IT Act, it says that information obtained from a phone without physically tampering with it can be used as evidence, which is what is happening in Deepika’s case. Another question is how did 3 year old data not be deleted? This is because when you delete something off your device, it does not get fully deleted. It stays stored until it is overwritten by newer data. This is scary for many of us, and in the coming segments Rajiv Makhni will give us tips on how to protect our data better.