Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2B WhatsApp Users

Post by square_usual » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 8:42 AM UTC

seanieb wrote: post #19

square_usual wrote: post #18

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It's disappointing to see so many people here read maybe the first 10% of the article and decide it's nothing, when there's so much damning about WhatsApp's business model in here. WhatsApp revealed complete metdata that led to a whistleblower getting indicted, they harvest reams of personal data about you, and their AI can decide to unencrypt your information if it feels like it. Even the bit about moderating user-r…

They can’t decrypt your messages. You would first need to send them your unencrypted messages before they can read them… please correct your comment. There’s enough misinformation in the world.

Post by seanieb » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 8:51 AM UTC

square_usual wrote: post #21

seanieb wrote: post #19

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They can’t decrypt your messages. You would first need to send them your unencrypted messages before they can read them… please correct your comment. There’s enough misinformation in the world.

I've responded to this elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28467601

Post by ssss11 » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 10:09 AM UTC

square_usual wrote: post #8

At first I thought the bit about seeing user-reported content was a nothingburger, but this is far, far worse: Artificial intelligence initiates a second set of queues – so-called proactive ones – by scanning unencrypted data that WhatsApp collects about its users and comparing it against suspicious account information and messaging patterns [...] as well as terms and images that have previously been deemed abusive.…