Facebook seems to have something like Reverse Midas touch where it infects anything that is bought with a certain curse. The rapidly growing social network before becoming a Facebook property has been transformed into a questionable business that relies on violating privacy to get profit. It even includes WhatsApp, whose claims of fame always become guarantee of encryption and end-to-end privacy. Now it turns out there might be a small gap that gives Facebook a little motion space to really destroy that trust, usually with the guise of observing the law.
End-to-end encryption means that practical messages rush until they reach the intended recipient, and that’s the way WhatsApp works in general. However, there is one very specific example where it does not apply. When the user marks a message as a potentially incorrect, all bets are dead, and the Moderator WhatsApp gets a clear and unique message display and other things related to it.
WhatsApp actually doesn’t call it more than 1,000 moderators contract workers “,” prefer the term “content reviewer.” Unlike moderators who can delete certain messages or messages, this reviewer can only do three things: Ignore reports, place the account reported under the watch, or a prohibition of the account immediately. However, like the moderator, they have a clear view of messages suspected of offending, four messages before the message, and the metadata related to the user in the conversation.
Unfortunately, Whistleblowers revealed to Pro Publicans that whatsapp guidelines for assessing reportedly confusing, mysterious, and even disturbing messages. It does not help that messages can come in all kinds of languages, and Facebook automatic translation tools sometimes misstep the language label. Piercing and misunderstandings have caused the company to sell razors to be marked to sell weapons, and the selling bra is labeled as a sexual-oriented business.
While regular and unmatched messages remain very encrypted, metadata about whatsapp users does not, and Facebook can easily provide law enforcers to them when requested. There is also a worrying encouragement from Big Tech to develop AI which can collect some information even from encrypted messages. In the final analysis, even a platform or service that technically offers strong security guarantees still functioning in the trust system, and Facebook ownership of WhatsApp may not be exactly confusing.