According to Meta Whatsapp is E2EE and Data requests by government agencies can only reveal metadata like recipients, durations of calls, frequency of messages, but not content of messages.
The basis of using a service is that you entrust them with the care of your necessity. That they make it unable by policy not to look at the contents of your mail is a nice feature, but nor necessary, as we firstly rely on the good faith we put on the service provdider. To go ahead and request that the security measures be extended to data necessary to route communications, is of a pathological paranoic nature.
The mailman needs to know the address.
Mailmen who don't require your address to deliver may appear as competitors, but they will always be a shady second choice, because mailmen need to know your address.
I believe the internet should be treated like the mail, but until the government actually steps in and takes ownership of it, they have no business having access to the metadata necessary to route packets, let alone the logs of those routings, and certainly not any additional Metadata that is not part of the routing function
Because you might be talking to the mob boss about the weather. But the fact that you are talking to the mob boss is an extremely interesting data point. It pins you to the map in a way that you are immediately a POI and causes a file to be opened on you and your other contacts to further map your place in the network. Who talks to who is very powerful information.
"We kill people based on metadata." - General Michael Hayden, former director NSA and CIA