Facebook's history is a long string of pretty significant scandals that are forgotten a year later because they're not about X, which would be something much more serious and deserving of great reprieve...
> No matter how disillusioned you are with Facebook, directly and overtly lying to customers about encryption would be next level
This feels like an ethical line drawn on your own, and a technical distinction (which we, as technically-inclined people, are wont to make) that means little in the practical legal and sociopolitical frameworks of what constitutes a breach of contract and cause for punishment.
> Sneaky fine print is one thing. Plain lying is another.
Have you read the entirety of FB's fine print regarding its services, including WhatsApp? I haven't.
> WhatsApp end-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you're communicating with can read what's sent, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp.
Instead of us going back and forth about this, perhaps a lawyer can weigh in: is there any way Facebook would survive a lawsuit if this were patently false? Meaning, they delibrerately put in a backdoor to the encryption and are reading messages, knowingly, as intimated in this thread.
And would this be "another day in the life", or would it be a transgression of new levels for Facebook?
It is my conviction that companies try and do what they can to stay within the confines of a hypothetical lawsuit. That's what legal departments are for, essentially. If this were a lie, I would be very, very interested in knowing how they got that document past legal. But perhaps a real lawyer can elucidate matters?
Facebook's history is a long string of pretty significant scandals that are forgotten a year later because they're not about X, which would be something much more serious and deserving of great reprieve...
> No matter how disillusioned you are with Facebook, directly and overtly lying to customers about encryption would be next level
This feels like an ethical line drawn on your own, and a technical distinction (which we, as technically-inclined people, are wont to make) that means little in the practical legal and sociopolitical frameworks of what constitutes a breach of contract and cause for punishment.
> Sneaky fine print is one thing. Plain lying is another.
Have you read the entirety of FB's fine print regarding its services, including WhatsApp? I haven't.