Telegram founder warns users to stay away from WhatsApp yet again

Founder Pavel Durov claimed that the company has been keeping the user's data under surveillance for the past 13 years

Messaging app Telegram's founder Pavel Durov launched a scathing attack on WhatsApp, calling the Meta-owned platform a "surveillance tool".

In a message on Thursday, Durov urged the users to stay away from WhatsApp and highlighted a security issue disclosed by the latter in September. He said that WhatsApp has been risking user data and claimed that the company had kept the user's data under surveillance for the past 13 years.

"Hackers could have full access to everything on the phones of WhatsApp users." Moreover, he stated that WhatsApp's security issues are intentionally planned.

"Every year we learn about some issue