WeChat is Watching: Living in China with the app that knows everything about me

Re:WeChat is Watching: Living in China with the app that kno... by netsharc on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:54AM (#20175460)

A while ago I ran a thought experiment, Facebook could also track things like this. If my phone spent the night not at home, it can probably surmise that my relationship with (person who I've been exchanging FB/WhatsApp messages with increasing frequency the last few weeks) has progressed to the next level. Especially if it can see the phone spent the night connected to their SSID, but with both of us having zero interactions with FB apps.

Is there FB analytics built into Netflix? Then they could even say what we watched on Netflix that night.

A machine learning bot that can write just the right thing to a potential date is probably doable, albeit creepy. It's even easier if the bot can see their entire social media and IM history...

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Re:WeChat is Watching: Living in China with the app that kno... by mtrovo on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:43AM (#20175946)

Where there's a way there's a will.

So say US has interest on country X, can you 100% guarantee that none of the following data could be used to target some individuals of said country: - Facebook social graph - WhatsApp conversations - Skype voice and video chats - Google location history - visa credit card transactions

IMHO it's just a matter of how big is the interest. Maybe it wouldn't happen to use this data for personal reasons but it would be very strange to imagine an army leader citing foreigners personal data protection when the country is at war.

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