Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages (arstechnica.com)
from leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to privacy@lemmy.ml on 29 Mar 2024 00:39
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/10457708

in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn’t use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing “hundreds of pages of Facebook documents,” reported that Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”

Surprising? No. Appalling? Yes.

#privacy

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finickydesert@lemmy.ml on 29 Mar 2024 02:11 collapse

I wonder if they count Whatsapp with that

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2024 02:26 collapse

If you backed up your phone with Google or iCloud pre backup encryption, which is most people, then yes!

tfowinder@lemmy.ml on 29 Mar 2024 04:13 collapse

WhatsApp backup of Google drive is not encrypted?

I don’t think so

[deleted] on 29 Mar 2024 04:54 collapse

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