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To be fair, the article is 9 years old and things could have changed in the meantime.

"The claim that WhatsApp can access people's encrypted communications is patently false," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said. He added that the bureau had already "disavowed this purported investigation, calling its own employee's allegations unsubstantiated."

I can't help but notice that in response to people's concern that Meta may be able to read people's messages, the Meta spokesperson responds that WhatsApp can't read them. A little bit of administrative juggling on Meta's end so that the team with access to the messages doesn't fall within the WhatsAll group, and both claims could be true.

Jonathan Ross has to be a very common name too. Plenty of scope for "congratulating" the wrong person.

the only way to stop this is for entire swaths of people to quit their jobs.

There's a middle ground: unionization and strikes. Not always successful but more effective than just complaining.

Quagmire confirmed then.

Your tax dollars at work.

The matter stems from a photo he posted to social media of seashells arranged on a North Carolina beach to read, "86 47," the first numbers indicating a slang term for getting rid of someone or something and the second presumed to a reference to Trump, who became the 47th president of the United States in his second term. Justice Department prosecutors wrote in an indictment that the message was “a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the president of the United States.”

Absolutely blatantly ridiculous charges, dictatorship style. The point is to show us they can do this without needing anything like a convincing case.

Age verification done the right way does not require providing any personal info. I 100% oppose forcing people to share personal data with private companies. This is not what we’re talking about here.

Handing your government ID and other personal data to private companies is exactly how current proposals for online age verification work. It could be done without this, but that's not what governments and corporations are pushing for, because the goal is easier surveillance. Take a look at some of the problems with Persona, for example:

https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/persona-age-verification-surveillance-biometrics-government-reporting-2026/

The next step will be to make more essential services online only, so people have to use the internet.

I was recommending it to anyone reading the thread.

It is kind of funny.

They probably know this perfectly well. But there are corporations and their lobbyists to think of, and they'd much prefer it if ordinary people weren't able to build their own devices and spare parts, but instead had to buy them at inflated prices.