A 10-month Commerce Department probe concluded Meta could view all WhatsApp messages in unencrypted form

  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 hours ago

    Nitpicking; even if they have the keys, the messages can be encrypted. It’s just worthless as they can now decrypt them.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Sure, when they say WhatsApp can’t access the encrypted messages they could mean that Meta/another internal group has access to the encrypted messages and they decrypt them in order to provide them to WhatsApp/whoever.

      (Obviously, as someone pointed out, this is all assuming that he’s telling the truth in some legalistic way and not just flat out lying.)