WhatsApp update: Company says Facebook cannot

 The Facebook owned company assured users that it will "never weaken" end-to-end encryption. It added that the company labels "each chat" so people are aware of the "commitment, The company said that traditional mobile carriers store such information but the app does not do so as it would be a "privacy and security risk" for them to keep record of two billion users.WhatsApp stated that it cannot see their users location and neither can its parent company Facebook.

"When you share your location with someone on WhatsApp, your location is protected by end-to-end encryption, which means no one can see your location except the people you share it with," clarified the company.The Facebook-owned company which has been under fire for accessing group chats said that those chats remain private.

The company said that they "use group membership to deliver messages" and to protect the service from "spam and abuse".

"We don’t share this data with Facebook for ads purposes. Again, these private chats are end-to-end encrypted so we can’t see their content," said WhatsApp.The company said that millions of users rely on WhatsApp to "communicate securely with businesses of all sizes", adding that it wants to make it easier and better for users to message with businesses.