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My dude, the new TOS stipulate that "you grant WhatsApp a royalty-free, transferable license to use, reproduce and derive works from data you upload, send, ..."
by dotdi 6y ago
My dude, the new TOS stipulate that "you grant WhatsApp a royalty-free, transferable license to use, reproduce and derive works from data you upload, send, ..."[0], which makes no sense at all if WhatsApp/Facebook did not have a way to decrypt the things people send via WhatsApp.
[0]: https://twitter.com/FSFTamilnadu/status/1346864102698754050 https://twitter.com/FSFTamilnadu/status/1346864102698754050
- antirez 6y agoI think that the TOS is just terribly written and opaque, and that in the next weeks we will receive clarifications about the fact messages are protected. Otherwise if it will be the case that FB can read messages, the matter will be very different and I will agree on the switch. But so far to imply this looks far fetched.
- dotdi 6y agoEven without that, all the metadata which is now shared with FB and ๐ฒฬถ๐ฬถ๐ฬถ๐ฬถ๐ฬถ๐ฬถ๐ฬถ๐ฬถ๐ฬถ ฬถ๐ฐฬถ๐ฬถ๐ฬถ๐ฬถ๐ขฬถ๐ฬถ๐ฬถ๐ฬถ๐ฬถ Friends is as sensitive as the actual transferred data. Contact lists and phone numbers are going to be correlated to Facebook profiles, messaging patterns mined, etc. It's about time people rise up and oppose this exploitation.