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Well, Whatsapp hasn't done anything egregiously bad yet and they got a lot of goodwill/good PR from their E2E implementation vouched by Moxie et al. So what's t
by bubblethink 5y ago
Well, Whatsapp hasn't done anything egregiously bad yet and they got a lot of goodwill/good PR from their E2E implementation vouched by Moxie et al. So what's the big issue with Whatsapp beyond that the client is not open source?
- labster 5y agoWhatsApp has already had multimillion euro fines for their privacy practices. Just because it has E2E encryption does not mean it doesn’t sell other data. A company whose business model is to sell your data is going to sell your privacy along with it. Being open source is nice, but not required for privacy. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/02/whatsapp-has-been-fined-267-million-for-breaching-eu-privacy-rules.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/02/whatsapp-has-been-fined-267-...