“In short, your privacy is silently being invaded.”
“Facebook (Meta) may not be consistently reading the contents of your messages - but they know other sensitive bits of information (metadata) such as who you are, who you talk to, which devices you and your devices communicate with, the time you sent the message, and from where you sent the message,” Simmons says. Simmons believes the time to dump WhatsApp was back in 2014 when Facebook acquired it. Should users really consider leaving the app? Do suitable alternatives exist? We asked technology, social media, and privacy experts. Today, WhatsApp still has more than 2 billion active users, but discussions about dumping the app for another, potentially more secure messaging service are still going online. “It requires data sharing with Facebook, doesn’t offer encryption for chat backups, and ‘mines’ the metadata of your messages.” Youssef Sarhan/Unsplashįor instance, a WhatsApp blog post published in 2016 reads, “And by connecting your phone number with Facebook’s systems, Facebook can offer better friend suggestions and show you more relevant ads if you have an account with them.”Īfter concerns like this garnered public attention, WhatsApp came forward with various clarifications, but by then, a lot of users had already started looking for alternatives like Telegram and Signal. “WhatsApp privacy policy is terrible for user privacy,” says Ashley Simmons, founder of avoidthehack!, a website that promotes online privacy and security awareness. Show 1 more item Fears about user privacy
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