I haven't found any statements about it from either company, but here's a decent article: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/whatsapp-google-drive-back...

According to that article, they also snoop on the content of any files stored in Drive.

To think, just a decade ago, this article seemed paranoid, to the point where even the author seemed to think it was an oversight in the Terms of Service:

https://techland.time.com/2012/04/26/will-google-drive-snoop...

Interestingly, they give (gave?) themselves redistribution and performance rights for Drive contents at the same time. How long until they start openly using those rights, I wonder?

Where does the article say they snoop?

Drive is unencrypted because it is indexed for personal search. What is the snooping part?

> redistribution and performance rights for Drive

This is completely standard and required so that they can provide syncing and sharing.

It's written in your whatsapp backup settings.

I meant leaks or new information exposing how/why FB intentionally made backups unencrypted when storing on Google Drive.

I am aware that Whatsapp does this and have avoided Whatsapp’s Google Drive backup overall.