Workers deployed by Facebook only have access to a subset of WhatsApp messages – those flagged as potentially abusive by users & automatically forwarded to the company, says a new report. In addition to the review, the company also examines unencrypted material, including data about the sender & their account, according to the ProPublica report.
No, Facebook Isn’t Reading Your Private WhatsApp Messages. The Problem Is Much Worse – inc.com
On Tuesday, ProPublica reported that Facebook employs 1,000 people whose job it is to read WhatsApp messages reported by users. That last part is important, and we’ll come back to it in a minute. The piece, entitled: “How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users,” would lead you to believe that the publication discovered a new way Facebook is involved in a gross invasion of user privacy.
Link: No, Facebook Isn’t Reading Your Private WhatsApp Messages. The Problem Is Much Worse
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