Ha, what a joke! Forget About Backdoors, This Is The Data WhatsApp Actually Hands To Cops - https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/01/22/whats... ... And note that the law enforcement can also access the actual messages from your own devices or backups on your device or the cloud. Even Apple has allowed FBI access to iMessages from its iCloud (which are apparently stored unencrypted).
What is your point?
They obviously have metadata to hand over.
Device backups are irrelevant.
Yep, it's all speculation and just blind faith that any of these opaque, closed-source apps (and network infrastructures) and trustworthy at all. It's "trust me, bro," but with many, many more words and much more marketing.
Like we would trust any of them... come on...
Is this a joke?
This is like the little piggy who only built his house with straw saying he refuses to make it less safe and secure for the wolf. lol.