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What ProPublica's investigation into WhatsApp left out

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What ProPublica's investigation into WhatsApp left out

User reporting is good for privacy — and for encryption's future

Casey Newton
Sep 8, 2021
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What ProPublica's investigation into WhatsApp left out

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One hurdle that we face when we have conversations about privacy and technology is that there’s often little agreement about what privacy actually means. The un-asked question in so many of these discussions is, privacy from who?

When we send a message to a friend using an app, for example, we almost always want it to remain p…

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