Would apple/google be able to comb through that data though? WhatsApp backups are not e2e encrypted, but they're still encrypted with a key generated by Facebook the moment you login to your account, and probably refreshed periodically. Technically, Facebook would be the only one capable of turning the encrypted backup into plaintext, so if google wanted to do something with your messages backup it would have to knock at Facebook's door first.
This kind of cooperation is definitely illegal in this moment and I'm nut sure future legislation will require services to set up persistent encryption keys exchange among services so that a backup file that is supposed to be encrypted on a cloud storage can be continually scanned for harmful/unlawful content by another service. If the EU or any government wanted to set up such kind of monitoring, they will require these services to adapt in a way that these kind of gimmicks with backups and encryption keys are not needed
After Discord banned their server, they moved to Telegram and the chat currently has more than 100k members. They would've banned Telegram if they wanted to shut WSB down
I think the focus of the discussion is not deplatforming content, but tackling the extremism rabbit hole Facebook is causing people to fall into because of its suggestions system.
Of course I wouldn't like my account to be blocked because I posted a slightly edgy joke. But would we care if an edgy memes page gets marked as unsuitable for recommendations? Probably no. Would it be a problem if Facebook blocked an Ibuprofen ad to some users that are deemed as not suitable? I wouldn't care, in all honesty.
If limiting the extremism slippery slope of targeted reccomendations requires to mark extremist content as unsuitable for reccomendation, then I personally wouldn't mind. Facebook already does it to some extent, but its algorithms are either not good enough, or driven predominantly by other factors
Thanks for sharing, I was looking for a service like that. Looks great. It's a shame I can only register my account via Google or Facebook though :( maybe I'm just dumb, but I can't find any other way to register
I think the point this atricle is trying to make is that WhatsApp and the Facebook app share the same shared container, meaning Facebook has access to that unencrypted database. So WhatsApp may be fine, but the Facebook app can access your plaintext conversations anytime too
I'm part of it too. Some years ago I was looking for an alternative to GitHub, with free private repositories for some personal projects I wanted to keep private. After a few weeks on GitLab I ended up moving to BitBucket because it was generally faster to use