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Re:We Chat, They Watch by danielheath on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:32PM (#23110454)
AFAIR Whatsapp does send a copy of your messages to facebook if the messages flag the apps internal 'sounds-like-criminal-activity' scanner.
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Re:We Chat, They Watch by zxcmx on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:35PM (#23110468)
Do you have a reference for this please? All I can find is this "false alarm": https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/more_on_backd...
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Re:We Chat, They Watch by sandworm101 on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:39PM (#23111183)
"We report all apparent instances of child exploitation appearing on our service from anywhere in the world to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC),"

https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/general/26000050

Something is being watched. I imagine they are hashing images and comparing them to a database.

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Re:We Chat, They Watch by zxcmx on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:52PM (#23111233)
Interesting, yep: https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/165022051727702/

Thank you.

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Re:We Chat, They Watch by monocasa on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:54PM (#23110582)
The fact that one of the founders of Whatsapp left Facebook in a disagreement, leaving $850M of unvested options on the table, and took what he had earned to found the Signal Foundation is a pretty clear indicator towards something in that direction at least.
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Re:We Chat, They Watch by dajohnson89 on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:51PM (#23110554)
Do you have a source on that?
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