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WhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contacts (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Thanks.

That is what the article is explaining.

The planned improvements are a good thing. I thought we talked about the status right/ until now.

Also: What does it mean then Meta (the company) isn't eager to collect this data (anymore)? This doesn't fit my world view of this company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Meta acquired WhatsApp and somehow hasn’t messed it up yet. WhatsApp has always been fairly good with privacy and doesn’t share much with other Meta apps as far as I’m aware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They don' want to moderate contents of your convos, it got expensive.

They are still mining the meta data to create cohort groups.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Where is the evidence of Meta mining WhatsApp metadata?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If it is happening, meta has it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Here WhatsApp spells out what it shares with Meta:

https://faq.whatsapp.com/1303762270462331

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Whatapps is meta

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

WhatsApp is a Meta business unit, yes.

And it has its own rules and policies for what is shared with other Meta business units.

Google has spell out the same. Just because you provide data like location to one Google service doesn’t automatically mean every other Google service can access it.

And they can’t just change their internal data policies however they like as some of this is governed by legal regulations.

Here’s a a story about how Google is not allowed to share data across business units without user consent, at least in the EU.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/12/24036312/google-digital-markets-act-services-user-data-opt-out

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

And tiktok promised to not send data back to china... It did.

And meta got caught sharing whatsapp data too

So did google

And then you come here with this clown 🤡 analysis?

How naive is u? Wtf

Do you reallt trust what a company says?