• IndefiniteBen
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    11 months ago

    WhatsApp became the dominant messaging platform in Europe before Facebook bought them. Most people are locked in to it because change is hard and they don’t care that much about privacy.

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        11 months ago

        The privacy concerns are not that Meta will read your messages (because they can’t, as you mention), but the metadata they can read such as your details and who you contact.

        “So, Facebook can track who sends WhatsApp messages, when, to whom, from which location (if a user allows), etc - but not the content itself,” Rykov says “This creates a privacy concern for people who want full anonymity. These people should consider using more privacy-enhancing apps like Signal, Threema, Wire instead.”

        https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/a-cheat-sheet-for-whatsapp-privacy/

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          11 months ago

          the metadata they can read such as your details and who you contact.

          Every provider of communication services can. Singling out WhatsApp in that regard makes no sense. Apple happily hands over metadata and iCloud backups to the FBI.

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          11 months ago

          Facebook owns the app on your device decrypting the messages though

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        11 months ago

        Ultimately I just don’t trust meta at all. I trust Apple slightly more. Which still isn’t much, but it’s more.