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Meta has been storing contacts for many years now. I mean, you can find relevant information also on hackernews e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208815
by xkcd1963 4y ago
Meta has been storing contacts for many years now. I mean, you can find relevant information also on hackernews e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20881512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20881512
- tinus_hn 4y agoYour link does not relate to your point. WhatsApp stores the list of numbers who are in your contacts, not the rest of the information and does not share the list with the rest of Meta: https://faq.whatsapp.com/1191526044909364/ https://faq.whatsapp.com/1191526044909364/ > We care about your privacy and we don't share your contact list with Meta Platforms Inc. or other Meta Companies for their own use, even when they provide us with services. If your argument is nothing more than ‘Meta is evil and everything they do is evil and they do everything that is evil’ then just say so, we can just end this thread because it is pointless.
- xkcd1963 4y ago> WhatsApp stores the list of numbers who are in your contacts, not the rest of the information and does not share the list with the rest of Meta: It doesn't even store the numbers. I lose my phone I lose all my conversations and numbers I had prior. In my recent example it deleted all conversations I had, except the ones I had open in the browser, but it deleted all contents within these conversation and removed the names of the contacts. And I don't believe that Meta doesn't link the data, they lied in the past and there is no reason they wouldn't lie now. > If your argument is nothing more than ‘Meta is evil and everything they do is evil and they do everything that is evil’ then just say so, we can just end this thread because it is pointless. My argument is that I lost my contacts for the 5th time already, whilst Telegram in 10 years has never done me this favor.
- tinus_hn 4y agoYou clearly don’t understand how things work, which is fine but then it is not fine to throw around accusations on those things. If you want to keep your data, make backups. You’re not convincing anyone.
- xkcd1963 4y agoEnlighten me o wise tinus_hn
- tinus_hn 4y agoIf you want to keep your data, make backups.
- xkcd1963 4y agoI would never have been able to come up with this on my own – thank you for your invaluable advice. I would hire you as my personal security engineer.
- tinus_hn 4y agoClearly not, otherwise you wouldn’t have lost your important data 5 times. Unfortunately I wouldn’t want to work for you, life is too short to waste it.