Comment by master-lincoln
11 days ago
If 99% of your life is stored at one of the biggest advertising companies in the world you already gave up on privacy anyway...
11 days ago
If 99% of your life is stored at one of the biggest advertising companies in the world you already gave up on privacy anyway...
All messages are e2e encrypted though right?
Messages are. I do not believe that metadata about the messages are, however. So they know who you're speaking to, at what frequency, and from where.
Fair enough. That's not a problem to me but I can see it being an issue for people requiring complete anonymity. Are there any alternatives to WhatsApp that would fix this problem?
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my mom showed me her phone the other day - she had updated her Whatsapp App and now the search bar has changed from "search your chats" to "search chats or ask Meta AI anything". I've googled a bit but did not find an option to disable meta AI and also found no definitive answer what Meta AI actually does - if i search for a chat, does it use this chat as context to provide answers? does it run locally (i highly doubt that)? is it only another interface to chat with an llm? It sure seems that this might be a stepping stone to pipe Whatsapp Messages into Meta AI and thus ignoring e2ee, not sure if it's done already but the line is getting quite thin.
Whatsapp has no meta ai built in
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What guarantee do I have that what moves between soft keyboard and the message window is not intercepted and same goes for displayed messages?
It's a closed source client. End to end encryption means nothing.
So this is a special case where two wrongs DO make a right when directed at a single victim?
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I don't think there was any moral critique in what I wrote. I just commented on OPs
> so you maintain full control and privacy
Of course everybody is free to chose who they hand over data to.
One more comment to your writing:
> take their favorite apps away
there was no mention of taking anybody's app away. If people want to contact me they will need to use something that is not owned by a big advertising company. One can install additional apps or use services that do not need any apps.