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Texas sues Meta and WhatsApp for "Lying About Privacy Measures and Deceiving Texans by Falsely Claiming WhatsApp Messages are Encrypted" (www.texasattorneygeneral.gov)
submitted 1 day ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1147528/texas-sues-meta-and-whatsapp-for-lying-about-privacy-measures-and-deceiving-texans-by-fa

WhatsApp is widely marketed as a secure messaging service that uses end-to-end encryption. This means only the sender and recipient can access the contents of messages, not even the platform itself. These representations have led millions of users to believe their communications are fully private and inaccessible to third parties.

However, investigations and insider accounts have shown those claims to be blatantly inaccurate. Reports suggest that employees of WhatsApp have been able to access user communications. Additional reporting and investigations indicate that message content can be pulled and viewed after the message has been sent. This is a complete and total misrepresentation of Meta’s privacy policies.

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh how many times I’ve been told that’s I’m paranoid and WhatsApp messages are encrypted and totally secure from Facebook reading them over the last… more than decade.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] fonix232@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TBF, that might've been true in 2017. But nearly a decade has passed since, and that's basically two lifetimes in software...

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

If you read the comment I replied to, you'll notice that it being 10 years ago is the point.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Damn, they did! I trust Signal’s software, but I have never believed for a second that every piece of Facebook’s software isn’t hoovering up all of the information they possibly can, even before LLMs…