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WhatsApp Reveals What Happens to Users Who Don't Agree to Upcoming Privacy Policy Changes

WhatsApp has revealed how it will gradually cripple accounts held by users who do not accept the platform's impending privacy policy changes

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  • Maternitus (edited 3 years ago)
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    In fact, private messages between users will remain end-to-end encrypted, so that they can only be accessed by those in the conversation. WhatsApp also lets users message businesses, however, and the same protections won't apply to those messages. Data in business messages will be able to be used for commercial purposes like ad targeting on Facebook, with some data stored on Facebook's servers.

    I'm not really sure what to make of this, but gut feeling says this is one step away from being totally not encrypted at all and since those "encrypted" messages reside on Facebook-servers, I have certainly my doubts about the safety of (my) privacy in total.

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