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The truth about WhatsApp’s and Apple’s privacy promises (www.washingtonpost.com)
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TL/DR:

WhatsApp

  • Yes, the content of your conversations is fully encrypted
  • Meta (aka Facebook) still has access to the metadata: who you chat with, how long you chat, your phone's battery level, stuff like that
  • You could use Signal to have even better privacy, but your contacts might not use Signal

Apple

  • Focusing on health information specifically (their recent marketing campaign), it's true that Apple end-to-end encrypts your health data
  • However, other apps may not
  • Third party apps can request (from you) access to your health data
  • Be skeptical of them
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I left signal when they dropped SMS support. It was just the last straw in a line of changes that showed they didn't give a shit what their users thought.