bold of you to assume meta respect data privacy, they have been all in on datamining for a while aready
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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A federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut down
(www.techspot.com)
Settle down. There's nothing to see here. Move along quietly and please remain calm....... /s
And here I thought the E2EE of Whatsapp was based on the one developed by Signal or at least so they say.
But I guess it's hard to inspect anything, if it's no open source software.
I'm so glad there's SIgnal and a lot of my contacts use it.
Back when it was called Textsecure it was a different story.
So that ad campaign that they ran saying no one but you can see your messages. That was a bit strange that they were pushing it, since no one appeared to be saying otherwise, might be a lie? I never would have guessed.
Didn't read the article, but maybe a back door to spy on people?