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A federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut down (www.techspot.com)
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A 10-month Commerce Department probe concluded Meta could view all WhatsApp messages in unencrypted form

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean yeah, but they'd usually not pay even a small fine (or pay for legal proceedings), so it's a lot more efficient to use conveniently placed loopholes.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

GDPR has entered the chat

…assuming the EU representatives have some balls