526
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
526 points (96.8% liked)
Privacy
36445 readers
208 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
Considering the US government now owns Meta and thus WhatsApp, it’s an interesting case… why did they use signal?
The government does not "own" Meta. Words have meanings.
Lots and lots of meanings.
Not for ideologues unfortunately.
Disappearing messages
If there is backdoor for them, then there is a backdoor for everybody who knows where to look.
because "they" don't trust the people they "represent" and they want to avoid federal archives
they must know something about WhatsApp that we don't
There's nothing to know; facebook is facebook, and nobody trusts facebook for data security. Whatsapp is not, nor will it ever be, true end to end encryption, when facebook owns the locks and keys.
Also WhatsApp logs a bunch of metadata (who you contact, how often, profile pic, etc)