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Already the fact that you are talking to a psychologist is worth a lot to insurances and job candidate assessment platforms. Or to a midwife. Pregnant women are
by est31 6y ago
Already the fact that you are talking to a psychologist is worth a lot to insurances and job candidate assessment platforms. Or to a midwife. Pregnant women are worth a lot in the adtech industry because especially if it's their first baby, they are about to buy lots of things they haven't bought before. Classical example is diapers.
This is from the metadata alone.
But Whatsapp goes further: it also encourages Google Cloud backups. Quite many people enable it. That way, the content becomes accessible to Google.
Other apps like Threema don't have the option of online backups of message content. You can back up some stuff online, but it's only stuff like your list of contacts, stuff that for Whatsapp already resides on the servers. For the content, you must use offline backups.
- captainmuon 6y ago> But Whatsapp goes further: it also encourages Google Cloud backups. Quite many people enable it. That way, the content becomes accessible to Google. What's the bigger danger for most people? - You talk about pregnancy on WhatsApp, and they - illegally - extract this information so that some website can show you diaper ads? (I'm not even considering the possibility that this information would leak to an employer or heathcare - because such a leak, or anybody doing anything with that info would be considered completely outrageous here.) - Or: your phone breaks and you loose extremely important information stored in chats - passwords, photos, and so on? For most normal people I know, #2 is the greater hazard. So I , too, would encourage them to back up their stuff in the cloud.