Category Archives: Whatsapp

If Whatsapp media messages are e2e encrypted, what is the point of storing popular messages on the server?

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There is something I don’t understand about whatsapp’s privacy policy.

Your Messages. We do not retain your messages in the ordinary course of providing our Services to you. Once your messages (including your chats, photos, videos, voice … Continue reading If Whatsapp media messages are e2e encrypted, what is the point of storing popular messages on the server?→

Changes in WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy

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If you’re a WhatsApp user, pay attention to the changes in the privacy policy that you’re being forced to agree with.

In 2016, WhatsApp gave users a one-time ability to opt out of having account data turned over to Facebook. Now, an updated privacy policy is changing that. Come next month, users will no longer have that choice. Some of the data that WhatsApp collects includes:

  • User phone numbers
  • Other people’s phone numbers stored in address books
  • Profile names
  • Profile pictures and
  • Status message including when a user was last online
  • Diagnostic data collected from app logs…

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If I accidentally agree for new WhatsApp’s terms and conditions, How to revert that? [closed]

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WhatsApp team updates their policy and it will be from Feb 8. I accidentally agreed with the policy. Later I realized the policy is not good.
How can I revert my agreement with the WhatsApp team?
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Does it make sense to create a Facebook account so I can tell them not to track me?

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Not sure this is the right site to ask this, but here it goes.
I’ve never created a Facebook account, because I don’t want people to know about me more than I know about them. But I do have an WhatsApp account (since before it was bought),… Continue reading Does it make sense to create a Facebook account so I can tell them not to track me?→

WhatsApp/Facebook Data Sharing: Pants On Fire?

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WhatsApp is forcing users to agree to a new pile of data-sharing legalese. But that’s exactly what it promised not to do.
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WhatsApp wants you to accept its new terms or call it quits

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By Deeba Ahmed
WhatsApp Updates its Privacy Policy – You must agree to WhatsApp’s new terms if you want to keep using it!
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Tech titans throw weight behind WhatsApp allegations in NSO surveillance lawsuit

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Facebook’s lawsuit against Israeli software surveillance firm NSO Group just got a big boost from tech titans across the U.S. Microsoft, alongside Google, Cisco, GitHub, LinkedIn, VMWare and the Internet Association, filed an amicus brief Monday to join the lawsuit, which alleges that NSO Group exploited a vulnerability in WhatsApp last year to spy on thousands of users, such as journalists, dissidents and human rights activists. More filings from other companies and organizations are expected in the coming days. Access Now, Amnesty International, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Internet Freedom Foundation, Paradigm Initiative, Privacy International, Reporters Without Borders and Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D), are expected to file another amicus brief in support of WhatsApp on Wednesday, CyberScoop has learned. The suit, which Facebook’s WhatsApp filed last year, is currently under appeal in U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Israeli firm’s lawyers have argued […]

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