>By the way, your messages in WhatsApp are still end-to-end encrypted. So nobody (not even facebook) except for the recipient can read it. Except, you know, if

>By the way, your messages in WhatsApp are still end-to-end encrypted. So nobody (not even facebook) except for the recipient can read it. Except, you know, if you or anyone you speak to or are in a group with has cloud backups to Google Drive or iCloud enabled, which anecdotally 90%+ people do. In which case at least two extra parties (Facebook and Google/Apple) are free to play fast and loose with your data. It's a perfectly good post, but it feels unnecessary to shoehorn this line into it so you can have WhatsApp in the title and get more clicks. As for BSNL, this is shameful and quite bizarre. I don't understand what they're getting out of the adware injection. If they wanted to track you, they could store whatever they wanted in localstorage or wherever without putting this front and centre.