cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1147528/texas-sues-meta-and-whatsapp-for-lying-about-privacy-measures-and-deceiving-texans-by-fa
WhatsApp is widely marketed as a secure messaging service that uses end-to-end encryption. This means only the sender and recipient can access the contents of messages, not even the platform itself. These representations have led millions of users to believe their communications are fully private and inaccessible to third parties.
However, investigations and insider accounts have shown those claims to be blatantly inaccurate. Reports suggest that employees of WhatsApp have been able to access user communications. Additional reporting and investigations indicate that message content can be pulled and viewed after the message has been sent. This is a complete and total misrepresentation of Meta’s privacy policies.
So I wonder what they’re doing. They have access to the plain text because it has to use their encryption so maybe they encrypt it with their key on device then send to their servers where they decrypt and use your plain text nefariously and also encrypt with YOUR key and send the message to the recipient.
Wow, texas AG office actually doing its job? Paxton must really be worried about the primary
Honestly, with Paxton’s history, he’ll probably drop the suits as soon as these companies fund a few courts stacked with judges who are favorable to SLAPP cases.
He’s sued like a half a dozen companies at this point for privacy violations. Not sure why but I think "doing his job"is off the table.
Sent naughty messages on “secure” services in the past and now making sure they stay buried?
Bribes from competitors? Protection racket? Yeah. There’s gotta be an angle somewhere in there.
Oh how many times I’ve been told that’s I’m paranoid and WhatsApp messages are encrypted and totally secure from Facebook reading them over the last… more than decade.
Even that guy told us this: https://signal.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/
TBF, that might’ve been true in 2017. But nearly a decade has passed since, and that’s basically two lifetimes in software…
Damn, they did! I trust Signal’s software, but I have never believed for a second that every piece of Facebook’s software isn’t hoovering up all of the information they possibly can, even before LLMs…
How else would server-side AI summaries work? Don’t need insider knowledge here, just a bit of common sense.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but the party line is that only unencrypted chat can be read by the server side ai. if you try to have it summarize an encrypted chat it will tell you it can’t
Meta is all about metadata and what’s the best type of metadata? The metadata generated from private conversations. Them to use Signal or something else where they don’t have a humongous ad business or an AI dream to fill.
