WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says
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tbh, that's probably better than Telegram. I get so many random messages on Telegram. It's so annoying.
Telegram is the wild west. Europe tried to do something about it, but russia started threatening with more hybrid wars and revenge. At this point, we have to accept the fact that Telegram is essentially dark web that no one but kremlin has access to.
It's also widely used for selling drugs where I live and no one can do anything about it. Been going on for 2 years now (somewhere in East Europe) with what feels like 10% of the city being part of the group
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I wish they'd delete my WhatsApp account. I got rid of WhatsApp years ago, when I got rid of everything Facebook-related, but they still tell people that I have WhatsApp. Every so often I get an SMS from them telling me that I'm missing out, and the people who use WhatsApp to contact me are basically being told that I'm ignoring them.
And, yes, I have closed my account and even emailed them asking for this to be sorted, even emailed them demanding my data under GDPR but they didn't even answer. Why respect my autonomy as a human when they could emotionally blackmail me into compliance?
Tell your countries responsible authority and they will deal with it.
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It's an opt-in feature. In settings, users will be required to enable Private Processing, which Meta describes as an "optional capability that enables users to initiate a request to a confidential and secure environment and use AI for processing messages where no one—including Meta and WhatsApp—can access them."
You should have read your link before typing all this. Their E2EE is a bit similar to OMEMO and Signal in the sense that one device is really like one contact, and one chat between two people is really like a group chat with many members associated with two identities. So they are adding another optional endpoint where you send the message to get that summary.
Of course if you do send it, it's readable by them no matter what they say.
Of course proprietary encryption (I'd argue that even proprietary code) can't be trusted to do what declared.
But there is no logical contradiction whatsoever between their claim of having E2EE and this functionality.
Wow! Thanks for this response. That makes a lot of sense as to how it’s done.
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I wish they'd delete my WhatsApp account. I got rid of WhatsApp years ago, when I got rid of everything Facebook-related, but they still tell people that I have WhatsApp. Every so often I get an SMS from them telling me that I'm missing out, and the people who use WhatsApp to contact me are basically being told that I'm ignoring them.
And, yes, I have closed my account and even emailed them asking for this to be sorted, even emailed them demanding my data under GDPR but they didn't even answer. Why respect my autonomy as a human when they could emotionally blackmail me into compliance?
Have you tried been a spambot?
