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WhatsApp is Facebook. They're basically just two applications from the same company now. Are we going to have a ruling that data can't be passed from Lync to Sk
by mhurron 10y ago
WhatsApp is Facebook. They're basically just two applications from the same company now. Are we going to have a ruling that data can't be passed from Lync to Skype in Microsoft, or from GMail to Googles Ad network?
Just because corporate policy in 2014 was they would be completely separate doesn't mean that in 2016 that is now seen as a good idea (for them). Facebook makes money off your data, it was pretty obvious this was going to happen eventually.
I do not understand the rage about this from people who know they're the same company.
- CaptSpify 10y agoAgreed. In other new: water is wet Sharing data is what these companies do. The only way to keep your data safe is to use open-source, e2e systems
- beagle3 10y agoThe data facebook gets from whatsapp is mostly the directed connectivity graph (and the intensity of each edge). That's data that, in the vast majority of e2e setups, any 3rd party with visibility to the network traffic will be able to see.
- CaptSpify 10y agoWhat about the conversations? That's where all the juicy data is stored.
- Sylos 10y agoBecause they are not the same company. They were specifically kept as separate companies and the deal at the time would have probably been stopped by law enforcement, if it wouldn't have been this way.
- Grangar 10y agoThose applications you mentioned all have a different purpose. WA and FB share the same: communication. Effectively they have almost everyone in their ecosystem now which (hopefully) is an antitrust case waiting to happen.