Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to

Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago

This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message

theintercept.com

cross-posted to:
technology@lemmy.ml

216

This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message

theintercept.com

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to

Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago

cross-posted to:
technology@lemmy.ml

Engineers warned Meta that nations can monitor chats; staff fear Israel is using this trick to pick assassination targets in Gaza.

Chat

Pussista@sh.itjust.works
link
fedilink
arrow-up
15
arrow-down
1·
6 months ago
Because they’ve been caught killing people in Gaza based on their affiliations to group chats on WhatsApp.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240418-israel-using-metas-whatsapp-to-kill-palestinians-in-gaza-through-ai-system/

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2495816/media

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/131708/Meta-challenged-over-accusations-of-helping-Israel-identify-war-targets

Privacy@lemmy.ml

privacy@lemmy.ml

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !privacy@lemmy.ml

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don’t promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

470 users / day
1.9K users / week
4.5K users / month
16K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
32K subscribers
2.4K Posts
54.3K Comments
Modlog