Private messaging? WhatsApp given lowest privacy rating by watchdog

WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging application, is used by more than 600 million people to talk to each other.

WhatsApp has been given the lowest rating for privacy on the annual scorecard from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The app is used by more than 600 million people, making it the world's most popular messaging application, and 2015 is the first year it has been included in the EFF's government data protection scorecard.