misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agoWhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contactswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up129arrow-down1external-linkWhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contactswww.theverge.commisk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agomessage-square25fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squaremarkstos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 hours agoThat is what the article is explaining. The contact names and details are encrypted. https://engineering.fb.com/2024/10/22/security/ipls-privacy-preserving-storage-for-your-whatsapp-contacts/ Perhaps the call times are exposed but it seems it would be difficult or impossible for them to connect this with a human identity. Use Signal if you have concerns about WhatsApp.
minus-squarehsdkfr734r@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 hours agoThanks. That is what the article is explaining. The planned improvements are a good thing. I thought we talked about the status right/ until now. Also: What does it mean then Meta (the company) isn’t eager to collect this data (anymore)? This doesn’t fit my world view of this company.
minus-squaremarkstos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 minutes agoMeta acquired WhatsApp and somehow hasn’t messed it up yet. WhatsApp has always been fairly good with privacy and doesn’t share much with other Meta apps as far as I’m aware.
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 hours agoThey don’ want to moderate contents of your convos, it got expensive. They are still mining the meta data to create cohort groups.
minus-squaremarkstos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 minutes agoWhere is the evidence of Meta mining WhatsApp metadata?
That is what the article is explaining. The contact names and details are encrypted.
https://engineering.fb.com/2024/10/22/security/ipls-privacy-preserving-storage-for-your-whatsapp-contacts/
Perhaps the call times are exposed but it seems it would be difficult or impossible for them to connect this with a human identity.
Use Signal if you have concerns about WhatsApp.
Thanks.
The planned improvements are a good thing. I thought we talked about the status right/ until now.
Also: What does it mean then Meta (the company) isn’t eager to collect this data (anymore)? This doesn’t fit my world view of this company.
Meta acquired WhatsApp and somehow hasn’t messed it up yet. WhatsApp has always been fairly good with privacy and doesn’t share much with other Meta apps as far as I’m aware.
They don’ want to moderate contents of your convos, it got expensive.
They are still mining the meta data to create cohort groups.
Where is the evidence of Meta mining WhatsApp metadata?