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submitted 1 year ago by Fisch@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

For open source messengers, you can check whether they actually encrypt your messages and whether the server has access to your encryption keys but what about WhatsApp? Since it's not open source, you can't be sure that the encryption keys aren't sent to the server, right? Has there been a case where a government was able to access WhatsApp chats without reading them from the phone itself?

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[-] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 1 year ago

Facebook owns what’s app and they can read any message on the service, they’ve also been known to give logs and messages to law enforcement agencies at request without warrants.

[-] Frogodendron@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

Why is it legal for them to advertise it as end-to-end encrypted then? I thought the main danger lies in WhatsApp insistence on backing up non-encrypted history to Google Drive/iCloud.

Of course, the existence of backdoors is usually not disclosed (duh), but can they actually read any message?

[-] nakal@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It's very obvious to me that GBoard sends data directly to Google circumventing all encryption.

[-] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘† Came looking for this one. Because somehow Joe Average ends up with keyboards having "added value" like Giphy (from Meta) integration and online spell checkers because local dictionaries are to oldskool.

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