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WhatsApp Affirms User Privacy Following Backlash Over Data Sharing With Facebook
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Playing baseball at the end of our street with all the neighbor kids without parent supervision in the early 90s. I don't think kids have that experience anymore today. I see most kids with tablets/phones in front of their faces everywhere I look.
Now? I've lived where I do (rent) for several years and I don't know my neighbors. We wave and smile - but that's it, lol.
delete your account first - else, other people still see you as available for messages.
Over here, there's a mass-exodus towards Signal. Finally.
as if facebook didn't get information from whatsapp before... just try chatting with a previously unknown person and wait how long it takes until facebook suggests that person as a friend. There's a reason why the whatsapp founders left facebook over privacy concerns.
Before going to signal, a lot conspiracy nutters in my vicinity switched to telegram, but with it being closed source and not employing end-to-end-encryption unless you chose to use a "secret" chat, I wouldn't trust that either.
as if facebook didn't get information from whatsapp before... just try chatting with a previously unknown person and wait how long it takes until facebook suggests that person as a friend. There's a reason why the whatsapp founders left facebook over privacy concerns.
Before going to signal, a lot conspiracy nutters in my vicinity switched to telegram, but with it being closed source and not employing end-to-end-encryption unless you chose to use a "secret" chat, I wouldn't trust that either.
This just proves how much social media has totally destroyed normal, rational behaviour. People don’t visit anymore, they don’t celebrate birthdays etc. It’s too easy to post on a pretentious wall.
My favourite is the last one: "You can download your data". Yes, like all your partners can do. We need to be thankful to them to allow us to download OUR data !!!
Seems that they ran out of ideas and they had to fill that last item to make the banner full.
Seems that they ran out of ideas and they had to fill that last item to make the banner full.
Its completely useless to move to Signal if the people and business around me are still using what'sapp.
They need to stop telling us what they don't collect and start telling us what they collect.
The harmful thing about all the metadata they are collecting isn’t found in a specific piece of data itself (such as online status for example, or IP address), it’s how hundreds and thousands of these small points of data will be aggregated into what can only be assumed as “profiles” on people that then paint a larger picture of your behaviour and reach over time. The content of the conversations themselves is almost irrelevant if what they have is every other metric with which they can build a profile on your usage, location, contacts and your entire social network.
I prefer apps like Wickr which don’t require any phone or email information, simply choose a username and password and you’re good to go. I hope Signal and Telegram take note of that hugely important sign up feature because the second we hand over even a phone number or email, the collection and compromise has already begun
I prefer apps like Wickr which don’t require any phone or email information, simply choose a username and password and you’re good to go. I hope Signal and Telegram take note of that hugely important sign up feature because the second we hand over even a phone number or email, the collection and compromise has already begun
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Lol there’s a movement happening globally to ditch all the **** from Facebook now , people in Hong Kong are all switching over to iMessage / signal / line / telegram / vero
Its not that simple. A lot of work places use WhatsApp to communicate with employee. WhatsApp is also used for a lot of businesses.
The workplace needs to use a different way to communicate with those who care about their privacy, in my opinion. A boss can just as easily copy and paste the WhatsApp message to employees into an email or iMessage etc. That takes just a few seconds. If people who care about their privacy and don't want to use WhatsApp need to politely speak up, instead remaining silent.
People act like signal or telegram can't be bought by a bigger cooperation like Facebook.
WhatsApp was a stand alone company before.
Call me careless, but I think people just need to be outraged by something nowadays.
If you have a smartphone, nothing is safe.
WhatsApp was a stand alone company before.
Call me careless, but I think people just need to be outraged by something nowadays.
If you have a smartphone, nothing is safe.
Yes it's so easy to tell your boss you don't want to use the method of communication. Then if your boss tells you no, then what? You'll miss important info from work.
If don't load WhatsApp and the boss says no, contact a fellow employee in a polite manner and get the important information.
For every excuse someone here comes up with, there is a way not to have to use WhatsApp if you don't want to, due to privacy reasons etc.
Actually there are apps more suited to work chats and collaboration, like Slack, isn't it?
Facebook and Intel are stifling humanity and pulling all of us back from real innovation because Fb and Intel are blinded by profits and couldn't care less about the user