What’s bad about whatsapp

more than 1,000 workers hired by the Accenture company would devote their time to moderating the content exchanged on the app. As a reminder, they cannot analyze just any message, since they are protected by end-to-end encryption. On the other hand, they receive pieces of conversation, in blocks of 5 messages (texts, but also images and videos), resulting from the app’s reporting procedure. In all, the teams analyze millions of reports per week.

A message sent on WhatsApp could be likened to a letter, which could only be decrypted using a code established in advance and kept secret by the two correspondents. Metadata is the equivalent of the information shown on the envelope.

In detail, the metadata contains:

• The names and images displayed by the user on the app (and those of its groups)
• His telephone number,
• The status of messages (sent, received, read)
• The battery level of the smartphone
• The user’s time zone
• The language of use of the app
• The operating system of the smartphone (Android or iOS, and their version)
• The date of the last use of the app
• The Facebook and Instagram accounts that are linked to the phone number, if this is the case.

https://techunwrapped.com/what-data-does-whatsapp-collect-about-you/

Facebook has issued a notice to WhatsApp users stating that they need to accept the company’s new terms of service and privacy policy by 8 February 2021. Among the changes is a clause that allows Facebook to share data from WhatsApp across its other products. Anyone who does not agree to Facebook’s new policies allowing it share data between WhatsApp and other Facebook services will not be able to keep using WhatsApp after that date.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/381676-whatsapp-users-must-share-data-with-facebook-or-stop-using-the-app.html