Secured end-to-end communications: WhatsApp messages are secured with end-to-end encryption using Open Whisper Systems' Signal Protocol, which is also used in Signal's Private Messenger, Facebook Messenger, and Google Allo. It's free: WhatsApp Web is free to use and doesn't include ads. WhatsApp for PC lets you use the popular messenger app on your Windows PC and chat with WhatsApp-connected family and friends wherever they are. In fact, why not lie about everything? Weight, height, gender, age, ethnicity, language, religion, etc.The WhatsApp messaging app isn't just for iPhone and Android phones. Hey, I don't think it's a crime to lie about your age to another person or company. That may trigger some restrictions on what their software can do to track you. Just a thought: why don't you change your profile in WhatsApp or FaceBook and tell them you are 12 years old? Even if you are 62. I think there are laws in the US regarding minimum ages that corporations can track. Let's talk about limiting what private companies can track. Even if you don't like CORPORATIONS tracking you without limit, at least you can be happy that the STATE doesn't. At least in most free countries there are laws preventing the STATE from tracking its own citizens.

So I don't feel that they are breaking any law. I don't feel it's a crime to track people on the Internet, at least not yet. Indeed, they SAID if you click on FaceBook ads in their app then some data does get sent to FaceBook, but what? Probably at least an identifier which tells them exactly who you are.

WhatsApp says they don't send your Contacts to Facebook and I guess I believe that, but there's so much more data! The fact that they DIDN'T say, 'We send absolutely NOTHING to FaceBook, ever' makes me wonder why they didn't say that. Encryption only protects the data in transit, not the data at rest in your device, such as your contacts. The key lengths and algorithms used both appear adequate even though I'm not an expert at this subject.īut I still don't have a comfy feeling about the overall situation. But I'm not good enough to accurately evaluate the encryption algorithm or key exchange algorithms. I spent 60 seconds reading through the technical details of the paper ('WhatsApp Encryption Overview'), which you can find in the links in the article. My first impression is that the paper passes my sniff test.

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