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Meta Is Being Sued Over Whether WhatsApp Really Encrypts Your Messages (lifehacker.com)

submitted 6 days ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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An international group of plaintiffs is suing Meta, alleging that WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption isn't actually private. Lawyers are asking the court to certify a class-action.

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[–] entwine@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

By unfurl, are you referring to OGP metadata? That's pretty common and used by a lot of non-Meta software. That's probably loaded by your Whatsapp client directly.

Btw, I'm not saying Meta doesn't read your links. Anyone who thinks Whatsapp is actually private is an idiot.

[–] elgordino@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah that’s it. If it ran locally it wouldn’t regularly show ‘rate limit exceeded’ messages. Its happening because it’s running server side in meta land.