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AFAIR Whatsapp does send a copy of your messages to facebook if the messages flag the apps internal 'sounds-like-criminal-activity' scanner.

• zxcmx 6y ago
  Do you have a reference for this please? All I can find is this "false alarm": https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/more_on_backdoo.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/more_on_backd...
  • monocasa 6y ago
    The fact that one of the founders of Whatsapp left Facebook in a disagreement, leaving $850M of unvested options on the table, and took what he had earned to found the Signal Foundation is a pretty clear indicator towards something in that direction at least.
  • sandworm101 6y ago
    "We report all apparent instances of child exploitation appearing on our service from anywhere in the world to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)," https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/general/26000050 https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/general/26000050 Something is being watched. I imagine they are hashing images and comparing them to a database.
    • zxcmx 6y ago
      Interesting, yep: https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/165022051727702/ https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/165022051727702/ Thank you.
• dajohnson89 6y ago
  Do you have a source on that?