whatsapp on phone copies all phone numbers?
https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/general/20971813
If you install whatsapp on a phone, whatsapp will copy the entire phone number list to a whatsapp server? Resulting in facebook getting all the phone numbers?
It makes no difference if a phone number on the phone number list is used for sending a whatsapp message? You cannot stop whatsapp from copying a specific phone number from the phone's phone number list to the whatsapp server?
WhatsApp is proprietary software: users do not control it. They are controlled by it. And WhatsApp is known malware, one of the tentacle of Facebook. E.g., read:
- https://arstechnica.com/security/2014/02/crypto-weaknesses-in-whatsapp-the-kind-of-stuff-the-nsa-would-love/
- https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/29/research-shows-deleted-whatsapp-messages-arent-actually-deleted/
- https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/13/encrypted-messaging-platform-whatsapp-denies-backdoor-claim/
These pieces of information I know. My question is, does whatsapp for facebook collect every phone number located on a phone which have whatsapp installed?
This is probably not possible to know except if some expert does
investigation on the matter.
This is the problem of non-free software, you have to assume that it's
capable of doing *anything*.
So imagine the worst, and multiply it by infinite plus 1. :)
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