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There's so much of misinformation spreading about what exactly was going to change in privacy policy of WA. For instance, there's rumour that fb will be able to read messages, shared location etc despite having E2E encryption (how's that possible? backdoor?). could someone please decode the proposed policy of WA?

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To me, it's not about the actual changes to the privacy policy. This was an opportunity to educate people about the existing risks of a very large advertising company having access to your contact list, and what alternatives were available. Most people didn't even know that Signal is open source and being developed by a non-profit until the WhatsApp concern popped up.

How do you know it's misinformation if you need a decomposition of the proposed policy itself?

because there are multiple viewpoints given by people, various publications, and later fb itself towards proposed policy and they all can't be right. It's a prime example of spreading misinformation.

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