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A Cautionary Tale of WhatsApp, Meta and Data Mining LizardMen – HotAir

The oddest and kind of really disturbing thing happened to me this week and I thought I’d share it with you all. Partly to see if you’d noticed similar occurrences or to give you a heads-up if you hadn’t.

I’m just really getting tired of the intrusiveness in what’s supposed to be “private” in our lives. Now, I know I’m going to hear how hopelessly naive I am from you guys, and I can take it. For those of you tender souls lurking out there who didn’t know such things happened on a scale of this sort, maybe you’ll learn a trick to stave off the fingers of evil sooner than I did.

It starts with WhatsApp. 

Remember how that used to be the “secure,” “private,” “coppers can’t make me break it” encrypted messaging app? Quite a few of us – maybe you, too – switched to it years ago. Its very simplicity, privacy, and security were the selling points. Unless you knew and accepted a contact,…

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