Comment by codyb
15 hours ago
The thing is, if they were uploading your messages, then they'd want to do something with the data.
And humans aren't great at keeping secrets.
So, if the claim is that there's a bunch of data, but everyone who is using it to great gain is completely and totally mum about it, and no one else has ever thought to question where certain inferences were coming from, and no employee ever questioned any API calls or database usage or traffic graph.
Well, that's just about the best damn kept secret in town and I hope my messages are as safe!
And I'm no fan of Meta...
Where were the Facebook whistleblowers about the numerous IOS/Android gaps that let the company gain more information than they were to supposed to see? Malicious VPNs, scanning other installed mobile applications, whatever. As far as I know, the big indictments have been found from the outside.
>Malicious VPNs
AFAIK that was a separate app, and it was pretty clear that it was MITMing your connections. It's not any different than say, complaining about how there weren't any whistleblowers for fortinet (who sell enterprise firewalls).
>scanning other installed mobile applications
Source?