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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by lodovic on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:45AM (#25668363)
In Europe the WhatsApp alternatives are generally framed as tools for pedophiles and organized crime. Even installing them on your phone may alert LEO that you're suspect. This move by Facebook is highly troubling.

edit: mass downvote! here are the links.

this link talks specifically about signal protocol being used by organized crime https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/waarom-criminel...

https://www.securityweek.com/telegram-rivaling-tor-home-crim...

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/05/03/criminals-are-hi...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by Tomte on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:20AM (#25669771)
Nonsense.

Here are links that show that WhatsApp is painted as a tool for pedophiles:

* https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/whatsapp-has...

* https://www.businessinsider.com/whatsapp-has-a-child-porn-pr...

* https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/whatsapp-pornography/

* https://endsexualexploitation.org/articles/whatsapp-has-a-ch...

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by rcMgD2BwE72F on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:05AM (#25668521)
Source?

My friends and family have mostly been using Signal for over a year and we never had such worry. I also know laywers, lawmakers, doctors and CEOs who are also using Signal for important communications.

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by midasz on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:09AM (#25668542)
That's absolute nonsense
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by patall on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:58AM (#25668471)
Do you have an source for that claim. I am in Europe and have never heard that. The closest I know of is right wing groups using Telegramm for their Anti-Covid agitation.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by lodovic on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:31AM (#25668665)
updated GP
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by patall on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:21AM (#25669007)
Sorry, I have now spent almost an hour reading 7 articles of yours and, from my point of view, none supports your claim. Framing implys for me that some other person publicly claims something although that is not really the case (i.e Telegramm is not popular with criminals), else, it is just reporting.

Neither could I find anything matching your second point that installing any of these messengers might make law enforcement suspect you to be a criminal.

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