WhatsApp is a Meta business unit, yes.
And it has its own rules and policies for what is shared with other Meta business units.
Google has spell out the same. Just because you provide data like location to one Google service doesn’t automatically mean every other Google service can access it.
And they can’t just change their internal data policies however they like as some of this is governed by legal regulations.
Here’s a a story about how Google is not allowed to share data across business units without user consent, at least in the EU.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/12/24036312/google-digital-markets-act-services-user-data-opt-out
Here WhatsApp spells out what it shares with Meta:
I love that a Twitter founder founded Bluesky and the logo went from the outline of a white bird on a blue background to the outline of a white butterfly on a similar shade of blue background.
It’s reasonable not to trust them, but they could get in serious legal trouble if they are claiming the data is encrypted and they can’t access when in fact they can.
WhatsApp has a different business model. There are a lot of businesses on the platform and businesses are charged to do business messaging with users.
In some parts of the world WhatsApp has become a somewhat essential part of life so plenty of businesses what to participate and access the users there.
How Meta got into that position involved zero-rating— a practice where they work with ISPs to make sure there are no data fees to access WhatsApp.
While free seems good, the practice allowed WhatsApp to quickly dominate, crowd out competitors and make itself essential.
https://www.humanrightspulse.com/mastercontentblog/is-zero-rating-a-threat-to-human-rights
“What makes a zero-rating practice, like that of WhatsApp in Brazil, particularly threatening to human rights is when it is the only economically viable option for internet access in a society. In Brazil, as an internet connection can swallow up to 15% of the household income, users rely on these practises. As Professor Belli points out that economically, no other opportunity exists to assess the information being presented.”
No. The Signal app offers similar functionality to WhatsApp core features and is open.
Where is the evidence of Meta mining WhatsApp metadata?
Meta acquired WhatsApp and somehow hasn’t messed it up yet. WhatsApp has always been fairly good with privacy and doesn’t share much with other Meta apps as far as I’m aware.
That is what the article is explaining. The contact names and details are encrypted.
Perhaps the call times are exposed but it seems it would be difficult or impossible for them to connect this with a human identity.
Use Signal if you have concerns about WhatsApp.
They cannot see phone numbers of contacts, no.
This post is reporting the results of a poll. How is that trolling? Poll results you don’t like are trolling?
Also not sure why you’d think reporting Trump-favorable poll result sways sentiment here in his direction.
This news can be motivational for those favoring other candidates to volunteer, engage more.
One of the issues eight years ago was that the polls underestimated Trump so Dems weren’t as motivated to get out the vote against Trump. Let’s not repeat that mistake.
I use Asahi as a server OS on a Mac Mini where it works great. Have not tried it as a desktop.
Trump won in part 8 years ago because polls underestimated him. Democrats had a weaker Get out the Vote effort because they didn’t believe it was necessary.
He is polling within the margin of error.
You have no evidence of this. Pollsters may have their own political slant but candidates of both parties want to know the accurate numbers of where their candidate stands.
Some of the NYT polls have looked more favorable for Trump than other pollsters as well.
Not sure why people are downvoting accurate reporting. This is useful to know.
We do need bees, but that doesn’t mean the honey industry is sustainable.
https://www.greenmatters.com/p/how-honey-industry-affects-environment
Ironically, the part of Perl that looks most cursing is the regular expressions, and that’s the feature that so many modern languages have borrowed from Perl directly.
Horror movie backstory that starts with scientists feeding extra things to deep sea bacteria assuming that will turn out perfectly fine.
Fuzzel is a Wayland-native app launcher and fuzzy finder for Linux, inspired by Rofi and dmenu. The five-year-old Fuzzel project recently had a feature-packed 1.11 release. Here's a visual rundown of what's new. Instant filtering of huge lists 0:00 /0:08 1× ...
Fuzzel is a Wayland-native app launcher and fuzzy finder for Linux, inspired by Rofi and dmenu. The five-year-old Fuzzel project recently had a feature-packed 1.11 release. Here's a visual rundown of what's new. Instant filtering of huge lists 0:00 /0:08 1× ...
Rofi alternatives for Wayland: app launcher, window switcher & picker
Rofi is a popular window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement for Linux. dmenu was a tiny text-only utility to display a list of binaries or lines of text and select one. The dmenu design follows the Unix philosophy to "do one thing well". Simple! Rofi took the idea and
My split, ergonomic Corne keyboard is great. I love pairing with a trackball in-between the halves: But what if you took the two halves of this split keyboard, jammed them together with a built-in trackball and threw in some extra features? That's the cocot46plus. I prefer the ergonomics of a
What's new in Fuzzel 1.10, a Rofi alternative for Wayland
Fuzzel is a rofi alternative for Wayland. It's a versatile picker and launcher utility for desktop Linux. The last time I gave an update on Fuzzel was when 1.8 released which compared it to some altenatives. Let's look at some recent feature additions since then. New --dmenu0 option Perhaps
Long term ergo-mech keyboards reviews
If you have been using an ergonomic mechanical keyboard for more than year, let us know which keyboard it is, and whether you plan to keep to keep using it for at least another year or if there's another keyboard you are considering trying instead.
Recommendation for a high-quality webcam for Linux
I have a Logitech C920 and am looking to upgrade. Something suitable for streaming.
Some annoyances with the Logitech: sometimes autofocus fails and poor reproduction of blacks. Ex: Lack of detail when a black cat is on screen.
I already have a nice mic-- the webcam doesn't need one.
(There is talk of bodily functions — my bodily functions — in this post. If you do not want to read about that, kindly skip over this post. — JS) I’ve often been in the situation where after a long hot day, I feel particularly dehydrated. I’ll stand on a bathroom weight scale morbidly curious, Conti...
markstos Corne layout ported to ZMK, adds Bluetooth support
Contribute to n3oney/zmk-config development by creating an account on GitHub.
How to open the parent directory relative to the current buffer
To open a file relative to the current one in Helix, you can to the do the following with 24.3:
:o <C-r>%<C-w>
Here, the Control-R allows you to select a register and the special register "%" contains the current file path and inserts into the command line, while the final Control-w chops off the last part of the file name leaving with you current directory.
This is like :o %:h from Vim/Neovim
Here's how I set up my keybindings for the Sway window manager for Linux. Most of the tips here would apply to any keyboard, but let's get one detail out of the way first that's specific to 40% keyboards like the Corne. It doesn't have a number row, and this
GigabitNow Bloomington, Indiana outage going on 20 hours
Started yesterday at 3:40 Eastern. 20 hours later, there’s still no ETA for a fix.
No note about it on their status page. Not impressed.
Not clear how many people are affected. A co-worker two miles away is not.
The GigabitNow status page does mention some maintenance work in area the day before this event. My guess is it’s related.
Recommendation for outgoing-only SMTP server
I'm looking for a simple sendmail replacement to receive local mail, such as from cron and service failures and forward it to on to a real SMTP server.
I have used msmtpd successfully but thought I'd ask if folks have other solutions they like.