Re:Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
by bubblethink on Saturday February 12, 2022 @12:08AM
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Well, Whatsapp hasn't done anything egregiously bad yet and they got a lot of goodwill/good PR from their E2E implementation vouched by Moxie et al. So what's the big issue with Whatsapp beyond that the client is not open source?
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Re:Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act
by labster on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:27PM
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WhatsApp has already had multimillion euro fines for their privacy practices. Just because it has E2E encryption does not mean it doesn’t sell other data. A company whose business model is to sell your data is going to sell your privacy along with it.
Being open source is nice, but not required for privacy.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/02/whatsapp-has-been-fined-267-...