Zuckerberg’s Facebook is reportedly working on a back-door content-scanner for WhatsApp, tantamount to a wiretapping algorithm - it will scan your messages before you send them and report anything suspicious.
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ckqdpf/zuckerbergs_facebook_is_reportedly_working_on_a/
https://www.ccn.com/news/zuckerberg-wiretap-whatsapp-libra/2019/07/30/
@Wetrix Fake news, apparently.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20585955 for details, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20587643 what seems to be the response of WhatsApp's VP.
@temporal hmm. Well I'm not seeing any iron clad proof either way, but going by Shitbook's history of constantly lying through it's teeth to everybody since day 1 I'm going to er in the side of caution until it's 100% proven it's not real.
Even then I won't use it but you know lol 😂
@Wetrix not saying to trust Facebook, or even defending it in general. Just saying that this particular article doesn't seem to be properly sourced, and the particular thing it ultimately references is neither about WhatsApp nor about defeating E2E for antiprivacy reasons.
There's plenty of damning stuff to accuse Facebook off that's actually confirmed.
