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Re:U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison R... by elamje on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @09:17PM (#19325036)
Genuinely curious, how is WhatsApp spying? I thought they were encrypted? Are they not end to end encrypted like Keybase or signal?
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Re:U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison R... by fwn on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:25AM (#19326189)
They are end to end encrypted. There's apparently a lot of meta data (like the people one communicates with, etc.) that can still be accessed by Facebook.

It also nudges users to enable cloud backups which in practice means that everyone has them enabled (...which in practice means that all your messages are unencrypted in the other person's cloud storage.)

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Re:U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison R... by elamje on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:39PM (#19331429)
Oh no. I see
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