Can We End Data Exploitation in #google and #facebook?
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One Company Believes They CanIn the age of WhatsApp, Signal, and other messaging apps, questions over data security or sharing have arisen. True, apps like WhatApp and Signal boast end to end #encryption, chances are your data is being used in a variety of ways.One indication that WhatsApp (owned by the now bad boy of user data -Facebook) utilizes its users’ data is that it has rolled out an ads platform. If data was not being culled from messages to enhance targeting I think I and many others would be shocked.But It’s Encrypted — So Why Are You Worrying?WhatsApp and Signal and Google may be encrypted between sender and receiver, but the data is actually stored on the phone and this data is not encrypted, which leaves a back door to either the app itself using the data to sell to others or (...)