Doffman said that the WhatsApp debacle, caused by his intention to implement new policies, in which framework he planned to start sharing user data with Facebook, “distracted attention from how bad Messenger’s invasion of privacy is.” “There is no justification for this. We all know that Facebook lives off our data, this is how we pay for their ‘free’ services. But there has to be a limit. If we find ourselves in a place where Facebook says’ we will take whatever they can put in in our hands’, and we say ‘yes, this is fine’, so what does that say about us and the value we place on our own privacy, “he said.
The journalist stated that WhatsApp’s main argument in his defense was that the application cannot read our messages and neither can Facebook. “You are not so lucky, however, if you are a Messenger user,” Doffman said.
He indicated that end-to-end encryption, which WhatsApp provides its users, is used in Messenger only in private messages, not within groups, and is not activated by default. The function “should be the default for whatever messaging platform you use,” the journalist said.
Doffman pointed out that the application “monitors the content and you will notice that ‘health and fitness’, ‘sensitive information’ and ‘financial information’ are among the mass of user data fields that it admits to collect through its Messenger platform.
“The advice now is simple. If you are still on Messenger or if you are using Instagram direct messages for anything other than interacting with companies you are buying from and [realizar] casual contacts, then it’s time to switch. The easiest option is still WhatsApp, given its magnitude: all your friends and family are probably users. If you want a more secure option, then use Signal in parallel. It will be more usable as more of your contacts join, “he stressed.
Last week, WhatsApp advised its users that the data collected by the service will now be shared with Facebook, whether the user wants it or not.
The news sparked a controversy over privacy on the Net and was harshly criticized by personalities such as Tesla co-founder and SpaceX head, Elon Musk, and Telegram co-founder, Pável Dúrov.
As a result of the loss of users, Telegram last Sunday became the second most downloaded application in the US In total, it was installed 545,000 times in the country in one day. Signal was downloaded 7.5 million times globally between January 6 and 10, 43 times more than the previous week.
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