45
Whatsapp stored my wifes data (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

What a surprise when i discovered that you don't seem to need to backup Whatsapp messages any more. They apper to be stored on Meta servers. I'm sure it was not like this in the past? My wife left her GrapheneOS phone on the roof of the car and drove off. I managed to recover it but it had been ridden over by i car. So boight another pixel and installed Whatsapp again. She can't live without it as all her clients are on there. When i setup Whatsapp on new phone, all messages appered again, just like that. Spooky ... I think in the past it wasn't like that?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 8 points 1 month ago

I am not surprised. Meta is the company that do not follows the rules and gathers as much data about their users + others outside of their services (mainly thanks to Meta Pixel), as they possibly can. Extremely greedy!

  • If you want to switch to a safer place to chat on, switch to Signal.
  • If you want more privacy and stability, switch to XMPP and use OMEMO (Signal Protocol).
  • If you want maximum privacy, switch to SimpleX.
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •