• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 hours ago

    Around 99% of all chat reports sent to police in Europe come from a single US corporation: Meta. US tech giants are acting as private auxiliary police forces—without any effective European oversight.

    Thats very interesting. Assuming that whatsapp is actually e2ee that means instagram, facebook and threads account for 99% of all chat reports. That means all dms on there have been getting scanned. Sounds like people should leave those platforms.

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      6 hours ago

      Or maybe people are mislead by (and putting to much trust in) the term “end-to-end encryption”

      Sure its encrypted in transit between you and the person you’re exchanging messages with.

      But that doesnt mean the Whatsapp app itself isnt scanning your chats on the phone.

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      12 hours ago

      Not true for WhatsApp. It has a report function that forwards the last 5 messages in the conversation to Meta when used.

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      9 hours ago

      You didn’t even understand the context. It’s about a law that already passed as temporarily and is about to run out.

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    9 hours ago

    To do this effectively, they’d have to ban facebook/whatsapp, which are the two most popular chat apps in Europe.