The lawsuit cites ‘courageous whistleblowers,’ but provides no technical evidence. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, calls the claims ‘absurd’ and warns that it plans to countersue.
The lawsuit cites ‘courageous whistleblowers,’ but provides no technical evidence. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, calls the claims ‘absurd’ and warns that it plans to countersue.
How anyone would believe Meta wasn’t full of shit about privacy is a moron.
It has been public for a long time that they have access to your contacts and metadata (who you talk to, how much, when, from where, etc.) That was bad enough. But this is the first time I’ve heard about accessing message content. Really chilling.
The headline makes it sound like they have access to all you call, but the text make it sound like it’s just the WhatsApp calls history and contacts and that’s… obvious?
If they actually have access to message that and it is t end-2-end encrypted at all is on a whole different level.
It’s not just “Account A contacted account B.” And that’s it.
It’s more like “Account B using their Facebook profile contacted from a mobile device in Minnesota via an IP address that is known to Meta as a VPN address to connect Account A also using their Facebook profile, who answered from a laptop in Mexico City. The two communicated for 90 minutes and Account B terminated the call.”
It may not be Meta knows everything exactly but it’s a footprint they can follow.