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Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith Whittaker

The Vergecast

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What's the Difference Between WhatsApp and Facebook?

There are messaging services that look at everything you send across their service and then aggressively try to monetize you based on what you're saying. WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, collects the information about your profile information,. Your profile photo, who's talking to whom, who is a group member. That is powerful metadata. This is where we have to back out into a structural argument for a company to collect that data also owned by Meta slash Facebook.

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