That's not a statement that is supported by Whatsapp's own privacy policy, and it's deliberately vague to subvert from how Meta uses your available data for adv

That's not a statement that is supported by Whatsapp's own privacy policy, and it's deliberately vague to subvert from how Meta uses your available data for advertising purposes. To use a few examples: - When sharing your location with a contact. This feature is provided by sending your location to Meta, not directly to the contact through E2EE. Even when not sharing your location Meta will approximate your location from your IP address and other available information such as the phone number area codes. For both of these scenarios Meta feed this information back into their system for other uses. - Your contacts, and all metadata are taken by Meta for their usual purposes. - Any kind of status update is immediately provided to Meta. Whatsapp's E2EE applies to only a specific subset of the app's functions. - There are a range of automatically collected pieces of information that the app provides whatsapp, anecdotal evidence also indicates that whatsapp reports back conversation keywords. Such reporting usually presents unseen security risks to users. Meta have been attempting to dilute the conversation about privacy and security by providing sly talking points for how their products are "private" and "secure". For example: They have stated that facebook is private because their servers are well maintained against hackers. They're currently heavily advertising whatsapp as secure because it offers E2EE messaging - neither of these statements address the underlying issue with Meta: it's an advertising company based on invasive data collection. Meta build profiles on users which are unacceptably detailed, we wouldn't trust our own elected representatives with such detailed profile building.