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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by zigzigzag on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @02:56PM (#12592058)
We're talking about WhatsApp here right? Which already uses strong encryption?
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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by thebakeshow on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @03:51PM (#12592525)
What does that have to do with privacy? Just because the data is encrypted doesn't mean it can't be harvested by FB
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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by zigzigzag on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @03:59PM (#12592604)
WhatsApp is end to end encrypted. Facebook/WhatsApp can't see the contents of the messages. It's the best technology available at the moment - there are no non-toy systems that also scramble metadata.
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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by lmm on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @10:18AM (#12597791)
WhatsApp claims to be end-to-end encrypted, but since it's closed-source, who knows what's actually going on.
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