WhatsApp is widely marketed as a secure messaging service that uses end-to-end encryption. This means only the sender and recipient can access the contents of messages, not even the platform itself. These representations have led millions of users to believe their communications are fully private and inaccessible to third parties.

However, investigations and insider accounts have shown those claims to be blatantly inaccurate. Reports suggest that employees of WhatsApp have been able to access user communications. Additional reporting and investigations indicate that message content can be pulled and viewed after the message has been sent. This is a complete and total misrepresentation of Meta’s privacy policies.

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[–] 42 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Wow, texas AG office actually doing its job? Paxton must really be worried about the primary

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    He's sued like a half a dozen companies at this point for privacy violations. Not sure why but I think "doing his job"is off the table.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Oh how many times I’ve been told that’s I’m paranoid and WhatsApp messages are encrypted and totally secure from Facebook reading them over the last… more than decade.

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    Damn, they did! I trust Signal’s software, but I have never believed for a second that every piece of Facebook’s software isn’t hoovering up all of the information they possibly can, even before LLMs…

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    Meta is all about metadata and what’s the best type of metadata? The metadata generated from private conversations. Them to use Signal or something else where they don’t have a humongous ad business or an AI dream to fill.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    How else would server-side AI summaries work? Don't need insider knowledge here, just a bit of common sense.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Meta's business model is collecting, using and selling data from users of "free" services. Obviously they didn't buy WhatsApp for charity.

    Meta has been caught lying before. Even if there's no backdoor right now, the next closed-source update can add one and take all message history. Would you trust Zuck?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    So I wonder what they’re doing. They have access to the plain text because it has to use their encryption so maybe they encrypt it with their key on device then send to their servers where they decrypt and use your plain text nefariously and also encrypt with YOUR key and send the message to the recipient.

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