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Today’s release of TextSecure is the final step in the transition from a private SMS app to a private asynchronous IM app that does not depend on SMS/MMS.
Using the lessons we’ve learned from the SMS environment over the past four years, we’ve developed an open protocol for asynchronous chat that enables private communication instantly with friends, private groups for realtime collaboration, and the ability to quickly and seamlessly share media privately – all without depending on SMS.
High Privacy, Low Friction
At Open WhisperSystems, our objective is to advance the state of the art for secure communication, but also to reduce the friction required for ordinary people to make use of it. We want everyone to have access to advanced secure communication methods that are as easy and reliable to use as making a normal phone call or sending a normal text message.
With an advanced ratchet, enhanced deniability, and an asynchronous orientation, we believe the TextSecure V2 protocol represents a significant step forward in what’s possible for the asynchronous chat environment today.
We’ve also made a substantial effort to simplify the typically difficult user experience that comes with end to end encrypted communication. The new TextSecure protocol doesn’t require a round trip key exchange process, eliminates half-open sessions, and is lightning fast – all without compromising forward secrecy or deniability. This creates an experience that takes encryption entirely out of the user’s way. A user simply sends a message, and it’s encrypted end to end, every time. Unlike other IM services, there is no distinction between “private” chats and “normal” chats. Private is normal.
Private Group Chat
The new TextSecure also introduces support for private group chat. Users can now create groups with a title and avatar icon, add their friends, join or leave groups, and exchange messages/media, all with the same end-to-end encryption properties pairwise TextSecure chats provide.
In keeping with our efforts to develop the most privacy preserving protocols possible, the server does not have access to group metadata such as lists of group members, the group title, or the group avatar icon.
An iMessage Experience
The new TextSecure for Android allows for two possible configurations. By default, TextSecure is configured as an “integrated” chat app with an “iMessage” like experience. TextSecure acts as a normal SMS/MMS app when communicating with non-TextSecure users, but will send messages encrypted over the data channel when the recipient is also a TextSecure user.
Like iMessage, TextSecure uses a color scheme to indicate which transport a message was delivered with. If the data channel is unavailable, messages can fall back to the SMS transport, and secure sessions can transparently migrate back and forth between the two transports.
A WhatsApp Experience
Alternately, users can configure TextSecure to function similar to WhatsApp, where messages are only ever sent or received over the data channel. In this configuration, communication is restricted exclusively to secure communication with other TextSecure users.
A Visual Refresh
We’ve also done a visual refresh of the entire app, adopting a more modern look and a new icon.
Connectivity Across Networks
The new TextSecure push transport is a federated protocol, and inter-operates transparently with the CyanogenMod deployment of the TextSecure protocol to their 10MM+ users a few months ago.
Now that the new TextSecure for Android is out, Christine and Fred assure us that TextSecure for iOS will be available in short order. The protocol includes support for users to have multiple devices, and Matt is working on a desktop client.
As usual, if you’d like to help with the project, you can contribute code, help file and manage issues, help translate, or donate funds to our BitHub tracker. As with any major new release, there will be bugs, so please help us find them.
In the mean time, get started with the new TextSecure for Android, download it for free!
DISCLAIMER: I'M NOT THE AUTHOR. THIS IS AN OPEN SOURCE PROJECT AND I ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTRIBUTE TO IT IN WHATEVER WAS YOU CAN.
I use TextSecure since a few days before I had WisperPush, but I thought that it's a messenger like WhatsApp but i can only send messages via sms, if I deactivate my mobile network(airplane mode) and try to send a message via Wifi it doesn't work but a friend has also TS and we both has shared the key?
Edit: I've reinstalled it,... now it works
It would be nice if you can check if the message arrived, when you send it via internet.
Very nice, waited until the iOS app was out before I installed. Looking forward to more features!
I would like to see notification sound and vibration pattern settings in the future!
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Blender - XXTea Edition
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My first PPC program for encrypting information/messages.
I store my information in Outlook Notes (or PPC Notes) to have them synced with my PC. However, there are certain information that just seems too sensitive to be saved in plain text. I have tried those secure database, however, they are just rather a bit.. heavy. I used to have a software in Palm that does just string (i.e. sentence) encrypting, which I find very good. The nearest thing that I've found for myself, is nomb, but I seems to have started to piss the author off a bit with my demand.. and I kinda solve my programming problems thanks to levenum here.
Anyway, the software runs on XXTea cipher as it is easier for me to write from scratch (hence the software itself is VERY small, if I were to get rid of the graphics ). I can do a AES version, but I don't see the point of doing so with nomb around. Anyway...
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Information storage: Store your stuff as you already do in your Outlook Note, Contacts, etc securely with encrypted message instead. You may decrypt the information within Blender or some other web pages that use the same algorithm XXTea (i.e. http://www.farfarfar.com/scripts/encrypt/) NOTE: I'm not in any way associate with this site. We are just using the same algorithm. I also have my own Java applet almost ready to be deployed (if anyone is interested) to be hosted on your own webpage, which you will know be always online and secure.
With Blender available in webpages, desktop PC (my Java applet runs as a standalone application too), and Pocket PC, you may actually, encrypt your message and have it written on a piece of paper, to be decrypted anywhere (with or without your Pocket PC)
Message exchange: Send secret message to anyone via SMS. The encrypted message is nearly as long as the original message (approx 25% longer, on block of 4 characters), you can send secret SMS to anyone, with or without a Pocket PC (using webpage decryptor and desktop standand alone application).
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- Does not encrypt message with 4 or less characters
- As with standard XXTea implementation, effective password length of 16 chars
- UNICODE currently not supported
Feed back feedback feedback ...
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If you want AES and file encryption, try nomb?
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Excellent work!!!
Nice work hanmin - I vote for file + folder encryption in a future release.
I keep work related files (network information, passwords etc.) synchronised between my desktop and my PPC; having the ability to encrypt sensitive files in the synchronised folder or just to encrypt the whole folder would be a real bonus (would stop my boss worrying about me losing my phone when I'm on-call and have all these files on there )
Having a choice of different encryption algorithms would be useful to some people, but adding AES, Blowfish, Rijndael etc. would only increase the size of the application and be more difficult to decrypt away from the device. The output from XXtea is meaningless enough (it looks like a MIME encoded email LOL!) so as to prevent people from worrying too much about what it means.
I've downloaded the first version and I'll certainly try it out and give you some feedback....looking forward to any and all new versions already
Cheers,
Mark.
nice!!!!
i too vote for file and folder encryption in a future release.This program in going firmly on my install today list.
Nice work Mr. H
Thanks for this app i vote for folder option as this would most suite my needs
Mobile Based Encryption and Decryption System
is it the same with PhoneCrypt and Gold-Lock?
I need your help guys about my thesis .it is about the encryption and decryption of text messages in mobile phone.it will encryp when sending and decrypt it upon receiving a text messages.
I hope you guys can help me thnx
Lance
YM: [email protected]
Source Code
is it ok with symbian os in mobile phone?
can you share the source code of this program to me.for my thesis project in order to graduate in college.
here my email [email protected].
I hope you can help me
Only the person you send the message to can read it. Period.
surespot is a secure mobile messaging app that uses exceptional end-to-end encryption for all text, shared files, and images. We can't stop them from looking, so instead we give them nothing to see. Click here to find out more.
You can delete your message from the receivers phone.
Be confident sending private information and pictures. You have control over your messages, when you delete a sent message it will be removed from the receivers phone and images are not sharable unless you make them so.
You can block users to prevent unwanted contact or bullying.
surespot is not tied to your phone number so if you do not wish to communicate with someone you can simply block them.
You can have multiple identities.
Be who you want with just who you want and keep people or matters separated.
Free app with no advertising.
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Be sure no one else can see your mobile messages. Use surespot and everything you send can only be read by the person you sent it to. Period. Everything sent using surespot is end-to-end encrypted with symmetric-key encryption (256 bit AES) using keys created with 521 bit ECDH shared secret derivation, but you wont notice because security in surespot is built-in, not a layer over something else. Be confident sending private information and pictures, you have control over your messages, when you delete a sent message it will be removed from the receivers phone and images are not shareable unless you make them so. Multiple identities allow you to be who you want with just who you want, and if anyone gets annoying you can block them. Surespot does not require or store your phone number or email address and we don't mine your data, no advertisements here! Download surespot today, invite your friends and enjoy your right to speak freely.
Surespot uses your mobile data plan and Wi-Fi so you don’t get texting charges, especially important for those friends in other countries.
We always appreciate your feedback and questions. Please contact us
Web https://www.surespot.me
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surespot is open source software, this creates transparency and invites peer review so you can be confident in our claims. If you wish to contribute/review you can find us on GitHub listed under 'surespot'.
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Found on http://prism-break.org/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twofours.surespot
try and share! https://www.surespot.me/
Really interested to see if this takes off. We really need a good encrypted messaging service. I read they are also working on an iOS application, which would increase their reach tremendously.
Also, anyone care to look at the source code? I'd like to know if it is as good as they claim it is.
-Tk- said:
Really interested to see if this takes off. We really need a good encrypted messaging service. I read they are also working on an iOS application, which would increase their reach tremendously.
Also, anyone care to look at the source code? I'd like to know if it is as good as they claim it is.
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Would really be helpful is someone could look at the code
frankly I havent seen the source but if a guy is offering it to you so openly I can safely say its legit
Thank you!
This is a great example of a well designed P2P truly secure mobile app. I've been using it on my Andorid 4.2 AOKP roms for the last 2 weeks with a few friends and I like it a lot more than Skype or similar apps secure or not.
It does what says on the tin, its easy to use, provides status updates as messages come through and it doesn't eat the battery. The only thing I'm missing is VOIP but this wasn't design for voice.
10/10 from me.
You can join the beta testing community for recent updates.
https://plus.google.com/communities/106252997244698246703
Could you compare it to Kontalk? Differences, advantages?
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surespot now with voice
Hi there happy surespot user! We wanted to let you know that surespot now supports voice messages. This feature is in beta testing at the moment and if you are interested in getting a sneak peak you can register with the beta group on google+ I would add a link but this forum is not allowing it.
atl4ntys said:
This is a great example of a well designed P2P truly secure mobile app. I've been using it on my Andorid 4.2 AOKP roms for the last 2 weeks with a few friends and I like it a lot more than Skype or similar apps secure or not.
It does what says on the tin, its easy to use, provides status updates as messages come through and it doesn't eat the battery. The only thing I'm missing is VOIP but this wasn't design for voice.
10/10 from me.
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Best Messaging APP ever. Used it since two weeks and I love it, OpenSource + Encrypted + No Screenshots + TotalControl of Information
This is useful for me.
You need a page to send in good ideas for the app, and here is one!
This app is great. But i miss one thing. An auto-log-out function thal logs you out of all current conversations (just like manually pressing log-out button inside the app does) but with a place in the settings, where one could either type in a number between 1 and 60 (minutes) or select from a dropdown type menu. Preferrably a way to select any number between 1 and 60 minutes.
This would make the app EVEN more secure than what it already is...
[APP][4.0+] Roomy Messenger - The new safe messenger for communicating voice & text
The new messenger app is here - Roomy Messenger
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Roomy Messenger uses your phone's Internet connection (4G/3G/2G/EDGE or Wi-Fi, as available) to let you message and call friends, family, roommates and others.
• Switch from SMS to Roomy Messenger to send and receive messages, calls, photos, videos, documents, and Voice Messages.
• 100% Free - NO FEES: Roomy Messenger lets you message and call friends and family, so you don't have to pay for every message or call. There are no subscription fees to use Roomy Messenger.
• MULTIMEDIA: Send and receive photos, videos, documents, and Voice Messages. Share large videos, documents of any type (.DOC, .MP3, .ZIP, etc.), and even set up bots for specific tasks. It's the perfect tool for hosting online communities and coordinating teamwork.
• UNLIMITED: You can send media and files, without any limits on their type and size. Your entire chat history will require no disk space on your device, and will be securely stored in the cloud for as long as you need it.
• SECURE: Secured communications - We made it our mission to provide the best security combined with ease of use. Everything on Roomy Messenger, including chats, groups, media, etc. is encrypted using a combination of 256-bit symmetric AES encryption, 2048-bit RSA encryption, and Diffie–Hellman secure key exchange.
• PRIVATE: We take your privacy seriously and will never give third parties access to your data.
For those interested in maximum privacy, Roomy Messenger offers Secret Chats. Secret Chat messages can be programmed to self-destruct automatically from both participating devices. This way you can send all types of disappearing content — messages, photos, videos, and even files. Secret Chats use end-to-end encryption to ensure that a message can only be read by its intended recipient.
• SAY NO TO USERNAMES AND PINS: Why bother having to remember yet another username or PIN? Roomy Messenger works with your phone number, just like SMS, and integrates seamlessly with your phone's existing address book.
• ALWAYS LOGGED IN: With Roomy Messenger, you're always logged in so you don't miss messages. No more confusion about whether you're logged in or logged out.
• QUICKLY CONNECT WITH YOUR CONTACTS: Your address book is used to quickly and easily connect you with your contacts who have Roomy Messenger so there's no need to add hard-to-remember usernames.
• GROUP CHAT: Enjoy group chats with your contacts so you can easily stay in touch with your friends or family.
• FREE CALLS: Hassle-free, long-distance calls Talk as long as you want, even with people in other countries. (Calls are free over Wi-Fi. Otherwise, standard data charges apply.)
• OFFLINE MESSAGES: Even if you miss your notifications or turn off your phone, Roomy Messenger will save your recent messages until the next time you use the app.
• SIMPLE: While providing an unprecedented array of features, we are taking great care to keep the interface clean. With its minimalist design, Roomy Messenger is lean and easy to use.
• Record voice messages when you have more to say.
• Express yourself and Bring your conversations to life with stickers.
• Your personal messenger with “damage control”: Delete a text message or voice message even after it was sent.
• AND MUCH MORE: Share your location, exchange contacts, set custom wallpapers and notification sounds, email chat history, broadcast messages to multiple contacts at once, and more!
Bring your conversations to life with stickers.
Know when people have seen your messages.
Forward messages or photos to people who weren't in the conversation.
Search for people and groups to quickly get back to them.
Avoid SMS and phone call charges
Optimized for Android tablets
Localized with your phone system language
Compatible with telegram
Download from Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RoomyMessengerDownload APK
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WhatsCloud is an android app which allows you to analyze your WhatsApp chat history on the fly with only one click
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Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.mordred.whatscloud
Project Page: https://github.com/sirmordred/WhatsCloud
We’re all using WhatsApp everyday and we are part of countless WhatsApp chat groups but Have you ever wondered statistical data about your chats like how many message sent so far? How many of them are mine? Which words are used at most? etc.
WhatsCloud might help you find out by analyzing your WhatsApp chats on the fly with only one click. It’s a data analysis and visualization app which features:
Analyze chat with each participants
Graphical representaion of statistical data via charts and graphs
Interactive graphs (zoom and pan)
Most active chat participants
Average message sending frequency
etc.
How is it working?
Although WhatsApp doesn’t give us a public API, it does allow users to export their chat history into a *.txt file.
WhatsCloud analyzes that user generated export of chat history on the fly and gives various graphical represantations of analyzed statistical data
There will be more features and different statistical data in the future, Feel free to send me your opinions requests via project page written above
CHANGELOG
-Version 2.0
Added custom date format selector (so users can change date format through settings if they face any issue on stats)
Newly added "word counter" stats and metrics for both common group stats and individual participants stats
Most active chat participants
Fixed various exceptions
Increased font sizes of text on charts and graphs
Eliminated duplicated codes
Misc. fixes and updates
-Initial Release
Enjoy :good:
This is a great app to compare how many messages you sent vs. your spouse, for instance. It has great graphics and word placement to see more stats.
Would love to see a share feature in future releases to send results to contacts.
I just read about it in the xda, let me try it and come back for my review.
Just installed, looks promising and fun!!!
One extrange bug is that I get active days in 2020, 2021.
And a recommendation\feature request: add a total word count to statistics, next to total message count. Checking some chats, I'm always down in message count, but for sure a made them longer hehe (sending this right now to github)
Hello bro! Could the data exported be used for training AI models/networks?
So we're giving permission to this app to read all our messages?
Hi
I use whatsapp business and a modded whatsapp rather than regular whatsapp. Can you add a feature to select what whatsapp version the user is running.
Cheers
dthabet said:
So we're giving permission to this app to read all our messages?
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No, the app reads only the messages you export in txt.
Not even close to open and read your WhatsApp chats database.
AlemanSantos said:
No, the app reads only the messages you export in txt.
Not even close to open and read your WhatsApp chats database.
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Okay thanks for clarifying! I'll give it a try!
What happens with the data I feed to the app after I got my graphs? Do the app keep it and upload it somewhere? I tried to find privacy policy for your app but couldn't locate it, so asking here.
AlemanSantos said:
Just installed, looks promising and fun!!!
One extrange bug is that I get active days in 2020, 2021.
And a recommendation\feature request: add a total word count to statistics, next to total message count. Checking some chats, I'm always down in message count, but for sure a made them longer hehe (sending this right now to github)
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Ok mate i just released 2.0 version and implemented "word count" stats and metrics (for both common group and individual participants)
Check out changelog on first post for more information :good:
hubono said:
Hi
I use whatsapp business and a modded whatsapp rather than regular whatsapp. Can you add a feature to select what whatsapp version the user is running.
Cheers
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It shouldn't make any difference i think, isn't there "export chat history" option on WhatsApp Business too? if there is, it should simply work i though :good:
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What happens with the data I feed to the app after I got my graphs? Do the app keep it and upload it somewhere? I tried to find privacy policy for your app but couldn't locate it, so asking here.
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WhatsCloud is just analyzes exported chat via stream on-the-fly and so it does not save that data stream to anywhere as .txt like file managers, it just does what it offers and thats all
Here is the privacy policy too mate: https://github.com/sirmordred/WhatsCloud/blob/master/Privacy%20Policy.md
Enjoy :good:
Very nice app, mate. Congrats.
Say, is it possible to add option to analyze stats per single world?
What I mean is this - I would like to track the usage of a single world over time.
So basically, I want to be able see most used words with their count and if pressed on one of them, to display their usage over the time.
Usage example:
To see the frequency of the word "crashed" over time in order to see how we improved (or gotten worse) over time at work.
Thank you very much!
The internet is full of discussions about WhatsApp's new Privacy Policy and a lot is being said about how they negatively impact users' privacy. The issue is primarily this: SHARING of data with other FACEBOOK apps and services.
While a lot of concerns have been raised, there is no article that I have found which tell us HOW this new change is going to impact us negatively.
Here is what WhatsApp collects from its users (and going to share with FACEBOOK beginning February 2021):
Your Name
Phone Number
Email Address
Contacts (Full Address Book)
IP Address
Coarse Location
Profile Picture
Device ID
User ID
Advertising Data
Product Interaction
Crash Data
Performance Data
Other Diagnostic Data
Customer Support
Other User Content
Hardware Model
Operating System
Battery level
Signal strength
Time zone
Status
Those who use WhatsApp Payments service, the following additional info collected will be shared:
Payment Info
Purchase History
The question is this:
How is this change going to adversely impact users?
WhatsApp does NOT have access to the contents of your messages, voice calls, video calls, etc as these are E2E (end-to-end) encrypted. So it is NOT clear how the new change in privacy policy is such a big deal. Here are some potential scenarios:
1. The backups you create (locally as well as in the cloud) are reportedly NOT encrypted (although I doubt this). Does that mean WhatsApp will have access to your messages and other stuff? And use these in ways you are not comfortable with?
2. I don't know if Facebook REQUIRES users' phone numbers during registration. If that isn't a mandatory requirement, this is what can (or will) happen:
Since WhatsApp has full access to your address book (or contacts), it will now start 'recommending' your Facebook profile (if you have one) to your address book contacts on Facebook, even if you want to stay anonymous.
3. If you interact with Business accounts on WhatsApp, details of your interests/ enquiries/ purchases would be collected and shared with FACEBOOK. Chats with Business Accounts are NOT E2E encrypted, so that information will be shared with FACEBOOK to serve ads to generate revenue.
If you are a Facebook user, much of the above information is probably already available with FACEBOOK.
Apart from the above, I really can't think of how this new change in Privacy Policy will affect users' privacy.
Are people just having herd mentality and making too much noise over nothing?
Hope someone can throw some clarity on this.
With a lot of difficulty, I have found an example of HOW the new change in Privacy Policy can adversely affect users:
Here is an example:
Let's say A and B are married. A is having extramarital affair with C. Now A and C are secretly conversing over WhatsApp without B's knowledge.
With the new policy change, WhatsApp will inform Facebook about the frequent conversations between A and C. Please note that the contents of this conversation is NOT shared, because WhatsApp itself doesn't have access to it. But only the fact that the two are in constant touch with each other over WhatsApp, and if they are meeting up, then that detail too will be shared using location data!
Facebook will think A and C are friends, so it will start showing friends recommendation to A's contacts. In other words, Facebook will start recommending C's profile to B. B will now wonder who is C . And somehow figure out the relationship between A and C.
Do you now understand why FACEBOOK is evil and why the new privacy policy is unacceptable?
Thank you for your info.
I have to say I slightly disagree, since WhatsApp and Facebook are both closed-source, there is no way to confirm that they stick with End to End encryption 100% of the time, do it at all, or even use robust encryption algorithms. Plus, we all know the shady stuff Facebook already does with user information and selling it to advertisers. In fact, before this update to the privacy policy WhatsApp has probably already been collecting user information or something along the lines of that, so you are right in the sense that this new privacy policy update probably won't change much.
Some misinformation clarified:
WhatsApp privacy policy update: Don’t fall for these false claims
WhatsApp's new privacy policy has caused some concern among users. but don't believe all that is being circulated about the messaging app.
indianexpress.com
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I have to say I slightly disagree, since WhatsApp and Facebook are both closed-source, there is no way to confirm that they stick with End to End encryption 100% of the time, do it at all, or even use robust encryption algorithms. Plus, we all know the shady stuff Facebook already does with user information and selling it to advertisers. In fact, before this update to the privacy policy WhatsApp has probably already been collecting user information or something along the lines of that, so you are right in the sense that this new privacy policy update probably won't change much.
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While nothing can be ruled out, we will still give them the benefit of doubt and accept their word on conversations being E2E encrypted.
If you are using WhatsApp AND Facebook, there isn't going to be much difference because if you have Facebook app installed on your device, it already has much of that info which will now be formally shared.
If you are using WhatsApp but NOT Facebook, you still aren't going to see any difference because what is Facebook going to do with the information it receives from WhatsApp?
With the new privacy policy, WhatsApp is only making arrangements to save itself from litigations. What I mean is information sharing was already happening at some level, which is now only being formalized. Users will hardly see a change.
It will only make a difference if you quit both. That way you can stay away from evil FACEBOOK.
Answering your questions about WhatsApp’s January 2021 Privacy Policy update | WhatsApp Help Center
faq.whatsapp.com
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"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}