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To be honest, Facebook is the owner of WhatsApp (Signal's end-to-end encryption) and they've incorporated end-to-end encryption in their core product too (Messe
by r3bl 9y ago
To be honest, Facebook is the owner of WhatsApp (Signal's end-to-end encryption) and they've incorporated end-to-end encryption in their core product too (Messenger's "secret conversations"), albeit not by default.
If I didn't know any better, I would say that Facebook did make a line between private and mining data, but there are countless examples beating that theory: their experiments with crashing the apps, showing only sad news, mining data from messages, WhatsApp and Messenger making web requests as you're typing the URL...
- amelius 9y agoFacebook has not finished integrating WhatsApp yet. Right now they have both Messenger and WhatsApp, which is confusing. I guess we'll see what happens to privacy once Facebook has made up their mind about the exact business model.