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Re:Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rathe... by the_duke on Thursday July 20, 2023 @10:49AM (#36801317)
The ironic thing is that WhatsApp very heavily pushes users into Google account backups, which are unencrypted, giving government agencies all the access they want.

I remember some talk about those getting encrypted, don't k ow if that has happened yet.

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Re:Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rathe... by bjord on Thursday July 20, 2023 @10:52AM (#36801353)
it happened in 2021, and some form of encryption for whatsapp icloud backups has apparently been available since 2016

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/whatsapp-encrypted-backups

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Re:Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rathe... by ancientworldnow on Thursday July 20, 2023 @10:55AM (#36801398)
You can encrypt the Google drive backup actually. It's just a toggle switch on the backup menu setting to enable it.
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Re:Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rathe... by pmontra on Thursday July 20, 2023 @12:28PM (#36802918)
They seems to be end to end encrypted now. It asked me a password to encrypt the backup with. It's a recent feature and you must trust a closed source app. No idea of I can download the backup from Google drive with a web browser and decrypt it with some common decryption program.
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