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Oneball

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CatmanV2 said:
I imagine when can be shared, although I'd not stake my reputation on it without reading the Ts+Cs. As for who's in your contacts. Again, I think it could be but if it is I have no idea.

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Apparently that stuff is in the T&Cs if you joined WhatsApp after a certain date, at least that’s what came up when I googled it.


CatmanV2 said:
Please can we have an 'ignore thread' button?

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I now understand
 
DLax69

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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that someone isn't monitoring you. Because they are. And having been tailed by any number of people in real life, I don't invite additional eyes and ears into every facet of my day. I use Signal instead of What'sApp; have no FB account; deGoogled my android; search using duckduckgo; and there's no Ring/Nest/Alexa thingie coming on or into my house.

That said, concur with C that humans want to see patterns and do cause/effect work. But that also doesn't mean those connections aren't there...or that red seatbelts are a bit much!:p
 
davy83

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The key here is that What's App messages may well be encrypted. This will however not be to protect your privacy but to make sure the owners of What's app get the money from selling the information and not some random hacker. Everyone sells information these days, I had the same annoying experience after a deal with my bank and suddenly got targeted adverts based on the bank discussion so clearly the bank sold my information.
 
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Oneball said:
I’m interested by this as I can’t find a proper answer. I think there are 3 answers:

  1. It’s just a coincidence
  2. Yes they’re encrypted and only the sender and recipient can read the message but data is shared amongst Meta platforms.
  3. Implanted bugs from the Covid vaccine and chips made in China are recording everything you type. They then transmit it to the Peoples Army who share it with Crazy Joe Biden so he can fiddle the election. He then uses it to control your lives and sells it to Facebook to recoup his costs. FB have unfortunately leaked it to aliens after a USB was left on a Greyhound bus and they now know where you live so they can come and probe your bottom.
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I think it's nearly #2.

The data being sent by WhatsApp from your device to the other person's device is encrypted on the way. But the keystrokes you are typing into the WhatsApp app on your phone are accessible by the app and the operating system while you type them. So either Facebook or Google is tracking what you type into WhatsApp before it is encrypted and sent.
 
CatmanV2

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For those of you that actually want a plausible answer:

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If we still assume that it follows exactly the same specifications as Signal, WhatsApp server can still find out who a particular user interacts with, how often, and how recently.
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So if Bud was googling red seatbelts and you were talking to Bud....

Full article:
'A Dive into WhatsApp’s End-to-End Encryption Pinaki Prasad Guha Neogi Dept. of Computer Science, School of ENCS'


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Oneball

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MarkMas said:
I think it's nearly #2.

The data being sent by WhatsApp from your device to the other person's device is encrypted on the way. But the keystrokes you are typing into the WhatsApp app on your phone are accessible by the app and the operating system while you type them. So either Facebook or Google is tracking what you type into WhatsApp before it is encrypted and sent.
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By “data” I meant the time and frequency you use the app and things like that. Not the content of the message in any form, encrypted or otherwise or at any time.

I was probably wrong to use the word data but not sure what the correct term is.
 
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