We must hope that Mark Zuckerberg has more sense of humour than he publicly shows. Only a keen sense of irony could ballast him through the self-destructive storm now ravaging his empire.
In India and around the world, the low credibility he and his businesses have earned for themselves are causing people to flee WhatsApp in droves, not because of something he has just done, but because they have finally realised what he has been doing all along.
Facebook, as it says, is not proposing to share the content of WhatsApp chats with Facebook. It can’t. WhatsApp has no access to the content of the messages on its own system. WhatsApp uses an excellent end-to-end encryption system developed by Moxie Marlinspike and his colleagues at Signal, which is free software and which WhatsApp has adopted for its own use.
WhatsApp is not proposing to begin sharing the information of its users with Facebook, because it has been doing that all along. Once, in 2016, for a limited time, it offered a chance to opt out. Anyone who was not using WhatsApp in 2016 or who didn’t take advantage of that offer at the time has already been ratted out by WhatsApp to Facebook.
WhatsApp is not changing to require everyone who messages a business on WhatsApp to allow their WhatsApp profile data and their phone number to be stored on Facebook servers for use in ad-targeting activities. That already happens, everywhere except in Europe, where it is prohibited by European privacy law unless users explicitly opt in.
Facebook was “only” disclosing that it already does all this pillaging of WhatsApp users’ privacy, and forcing its users to acknowledge that they know it too, or stop using WhatsApp.
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