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WhatsApp has suddenly been caught in a damaging fight with Elon Musk—and unfortunately for Meta’s mega-messenger, the battleground is on X, where Musk with his 185 million followers is hard to beat.The Musk/WhatsApp fight, which started this weekend, relates to whether WhatsApp exports user data to its own servers. Musk initially responded to aclaiming “WhatsApp exports user data nightly, which is analyzed and used for targeted advertising, making users the product, not the customer.
“WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted, but user data is not only about messages. That also includes the metadata such as user location, which contacts the user is communicating with, the patterns of when the user is online, etc. This metadata according to your privacy policy is indeed used for targeted ads across Meta services. So @elonmusk is right.”
But unfortunately for WhatsApp, Musk then doubled down, awarding Mysk’s post a bullseye emoji. And so the stakes were raised—because Mysk’s post touched on WhatsApp’s biggest vulnerability, its Achilles’ heel, data sharing with Meta, aka Facebook. WhatsApp is very wary of anything that casts doubt on its integrity and security—as we saw with its response to thelast week that its own engineers had criticized its unwillingness to adopt counter-measures to prevent government network analysis building WhatsApp user relationship maps.
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