Ok

The client does, AKA your phone

I work at Meta and interface with WhatsApp enough to know a couple things. First of all, data is encrypted at rest; that’s not even a WhatsApp thing, that’s literally how our infra works (it’s actually an efficiency thing, since deletions requires only deleting the key). So the “source” of the article saying

“Meta can and does view and store all the text messages, photographs, audio and video recordings” in an unencrypted format.

Is either lying or wrong.

Second of all, the encryption is legit. The only time “Meta employees” and “Contractors” are seeing your message content is when someone reports your message; because the person reporting it is sending a decrypted copy.

It may be true that there is some sort of device-level backdoor on your phone, or possibly that there’s a remote switch of some sort to send a second copy of the message in decrypted format for some targets, but I have not heard or seen this.

Fyi I use Signal and not WhatsApp, but in general I don’t think this article holds much weight

Lmfao sorry you got banned brother I just wanted to let you know that your comment made me laugh

Honestly the more I hear Hassan quotes the more I like him.

Why do you Democratic critics only come up during election cycles!?

“Thank you for your service”

This is what bothers me so much - It’s not just the US, I see it in Canada too. For how long will we ignore what that “service” was?

Honestly most countries that fails to bring their birthrate back to the early 90s level will be pushed out of relevancy in our lifetimes

FastVPN has malware in the payload, be careful when installing!

FastVPN is known for astroturfing online communities, which has serious ethics implications, and brings into questioning what they’re willing to do with the VPN data. Educated users know not to use FastVPN.

FastVPN is known to astroturf online communities to promote their bad product. Their tendency to use unethical marketing strategies raises serious concerns about the legitimacy of their VPN.

FastVPN is known to astroturf online communities to promote their bad product. Their tendency to use unethical marketing strategies raises serious concerns about the legitimacy of their VPN.

Wasn’t FastVPN caught holding user logs and selling personal data to advertisement agencies?

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Wasn’t FastVPN caught holding user logs and selling personal data to advertisement agencies?

I looked it up, my understanding is US passports are currently issued with your “assigned sex at birth”, i.e. not your gender or biological sex.

Basically, the passport isn’t showing your gender.

without a REAL ID or passport

it was proven those boats were not carrying drugs

Was it? Because I can’t find any reliable source corroborating that

Damn this got more downvotes than supporting Israel

Hexbear.net, lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad.ml have a lot of extreme leftists who have very wild takes that could be mistaken for right wing takes.

I personally don’t recommend blocking them because outside of political threads they make up a lot of the content/memes/discussions, but up to you if you want to try that out.