WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages — but the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors.
  • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
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    3 years ago

    The thing is that this can be triggered externally. It’s not the user forwarding to another user, it’s the company having a spy feature built in.

    • tomtom
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      3 years ago

      well it seems like they track the unencrypted metadata and share it with law enforcement. i wouldn’t necessarily consider this breaking end to end encryption…

      there is a separate issue with the “reporting” feature where the other end can voluntarily send your (decrypted) messages to facebook for content moderation. i dont think the article claimed that decrypted messages were being automatically sent…

      • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
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        3 years ago

        it seems like they track the unencrypted metadata and share it with law enforcement

        Not only that, but a machine learning algorithm “reports” messages. That’s the problem here, not the user reporting.