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by wolf550e
3409 days ago
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Facebook see your whatsapp contacts (social graph) and can sell that, but they really can't see the content of conversations. If being known to be in contact with certain people (e.g. human rights activists) can be damaging to you, you need to use something other than whatsapp or to somehow make sure the phone number whatsapp knows cannot be connected to your identity. |
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Exactly the problem. My conversations should be utterly unexiting for anyone capable of getting hold if them.
I am personally more worried about FB selling (misleading) data to insurance companies. If their ad targeting is at the same level as everyone else they could get whatever conclusions they want from whatever data.
And then there is the issue about actual human rights activists and while I am not very active (monthly payment to amnesty) I don't want to support a system that scoops everyones data into the hands of "they trusted me" Zuckerberg.
Even worse I was with Whatsapp and gave Facebook another chance until it was clear that datamining everyone was the only reason they bought the company.