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Why are you still using WhatsApp?

>Through much of 2025, the special agent had been looking into claims that some Meta employees and contractors could see the content of encrypted WhatsApp messages. Meta has vehemently denied those allegations.

>In January, the agent sent more than a dozen officials at other agencies an email summarizing his preliminary findings. He wrote that, after 10 months of gathering documents and conducting interviews, he had concluded that Meta stores and can view WhatsApp messages.

>“There is no limit to the type of WhatsApp message that can be viewed by Meta,” wrote the agent with the Office of Export Enforcement inside the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security.

>The agent wrote in his email that “Meta can and does view and store all the text messages, photographs, audio and video recordings” in an unencrypted format. He wrote that since at least 2019 Meta has had a “tiered permissions system,” giving different people access to a range of WhatsApp content, and that the company has granted such access to contractors and a “significant number of foreign/overseas workers in India.”

>“The misconduct of Meta and its officers, including current and former high-level executives, involve civil and criminal violations that span several federal jurisdictions,” he said.

>Not long after the investigator sent the note, his agency, which oversees US export controls, closed the investigation. Two people familiar with the matter described the shutting of the investigation as abrupt, and one of them said it was done at the direction of senior agency leaders.
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>>108712161
Text quote without link?
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Still better than the competition, iturds have actual hardware backdoor onto the entire device not just a single app.
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>>108712161
Is the mechanism known? Does the client leak the keys to meta's servers or something? How did the investigator determine these things?
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>>108712645
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/04/29/tech/us-investigation-whatsapp-privacy/
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>>108712161
I never was. I’m white.
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>>108712161
>Why are you still using WhatsApp?

I'm using WhatsApp?
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>>108712743
to shit talk Europeans on their preferred messenger
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>>108712161
>Why are you still using WhatsApp?
because gay ass coworkers / uni mates / family members won't stop using it for shit in this world
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>>108713253
okl
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>>108712161
>Why are you still using WhatsApp?
Because my family uses Whatsapp because we're from a third world country.
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>>108712161
Who cares? I only have the dumbest most braindead retarded conversations ever on whatsapp. Whatsapp is for sending cat pics and telling roasties what time to come over your house. If you're discussing sensitive topics with normalniggers you're doing it wrong
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>>108712161
>They can read what you say
Are you 10? That's the case for any existing media.
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>>108712161
"Anons" itt:
>it's fine that a major corporation promised users end to end encrypted communication while secretly sending the plaintext to the NSA and FBI
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>>108712161
it required contacts access. if you don't provide it, it does not let you use the app

it's been like for 4+ years

no shit it's pozzed
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>>108718074
>it's fine pretending I have any power to stop it from happening
So you're 10. Thanks for the confirmation
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>>108718208
>surveillance is fine because you can't escape it goy
>you're a fool for expressing concern about this
uh huh is that so mr. glowniggersteinberg
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>>108712161
Isn't every message visible to the agencies because of unencrypted backups to google and apple?
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>>108712161
>Why are you still using WhatsApp?
I'm a Latin American third worlder, and I will be a social outcast if I don't use Whatsapp. People will look weird at you, and they will hesitate to make any business if you don't show your standard issued social media handle.
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>>108712161
I was force do use that travesty to talk to a few friends that I've met when I was over in the Balkans, literally, within installing it I got over 20 fucking spam messages and random calls, they would continue happening 'till I deleted the account and uninstalled.
I do not know how you EU people manage to use that shit, I'd rather rely on just SMS/RCS.
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>>108718074
If you didn't expect a massive company like Facebook, located in America, to be snooping on all your info, then you're retarded
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>>108718092
you cant specify which contacts to give it access to on your phone?
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>>108719416
living in europe, youd think itd be the same for me
but no, all the important people in my life have iphones
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>>108712161
So they have all this hearsay, but somehow it's impossible to actually just leak the findings so I can laugh at the even greater lack of evidence?

It could just be some schizo in the office chasing a conspiracy theory thinking he was a super secret agent, all real in his mind.
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>>108721940
This bullshit is especially telling :
"Two people the agent interviewed, however, described having broad access to WhatsApp messages while doing content moderation work for Meta"

Content flagged for moderation by users is sent unencrypted to Meta, obviously. The fact that the allegations don't seem to admit that and specifically say they have evidence for unflagged content suggests either the guy is an idiot or being obtuse.
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>>108712667
>implying any smartphone isn't riddled with Israeli spyware
Lmao



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