Info presented with NO bias, prejudice, malice or indemnity.
Open to corrections: individual tweets may be deleted, tweets added to thread or corrected as replies.
Points that are unclear or uncertain are marked with "(?)".
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Many conversations happening on #WhatsApp (WA) groups about new #WhatsAppPrivacyPolicy .
This thread has arguments to help ditch WA & move to https://t.co/En4fe9VxUN
Share," target="_blank">@signalapp:
https://t.co/En4fe9VxUN
Share, use, copy-paste, modify with understanding as you deem fit on any platform in whole or part
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Info presented with NO bias, prejudice, malice or indemnity.
Open to corrections: individual tweets may be deleted, tweets added to thread or corrected as replies.
Points that are unclear or uncertain are marked with "(?)".
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BUT, there's data: contacts, group affiliations, co-affiliations, locations (live?), frequency of contacts, *tags* generated when we send or forward a message or file to contacts or groups, links, clicks on links, etc.
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NOTHING in latest policy *prevents* the collection, retention, sharing or sale by FaceBook (FB: owner of WA) of this data in part or whole whether with identifying information or anonymized.
Meme source:
https://t.co/nMDTUlb0rl
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Now that #WhatsApp have updated their terms, forcing users to share their data with #Facebook, here's our suggested update to that notification you see at the top of your chats.#WhatsappNewPolicy #WhatsappPrivacy pic.twitter.com/FjxFGBm6Q8
— Privacy International (@privacyint) January 7, 2021
To create software, install & maintain infrastructure.
Google, FB, Insta, Amazon etc sell data created from our content & data generated from our interactions (searches, clicks, purchases etc).
This makes many uncomfortable.
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Money is needed to install & maintain huge server farms to host our content & provide us with services.
So, I grudgingly accept that companies collect data & sell data in return for services.
BUT WA is peer to peer.
6/n
Folks tweet all sorts of stuff, even deeply personal matters.
Expectation is 100% public, including data.
Folks use WA for all sorts of stuff, even deeply personal matters.
*Expectation* is 100% private including data.
7/n
YET, FB now wants to mine & commodify the data generated on WA, share & sell it with no limitations or guarantees of anonymity or data protection.
THIS is a problem.
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MESSAGES
SHALL
REMAIN
E2E
ENCRYPTED!
BUT I do NOT want to be profiled or profited from the *data* generated by sharing births, deaths, photos, jokes, shopping lists, passwords, the small myriad private pleasures & heartbreaks that we share with our loved ones on WA.
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Free
Open Source
Not-for-profit
"our only investment is in your privacy.": https://t.co/LIC0RisXaV
Additional info from: @privacyint
eg:
https://t.co/4mN6fQ68W6
Respond with corrections if any.
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Is this what stock analysts mean when they say that the market is giving mixed Signals?
— Signal (@signalapp) January 8, 2021
It's understandable that people want to invest in Signal's record growth, but this isn't us. We're an independent 501c3 and our only investment is in your privacy. pic.twitter.com/9EgMUZiEZf
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