“For the avoidance of any doubt, it is still the case that WhatsApp does not share European region WhatsApp user data with Facebook for the purpose of Facebook using this data to improve its products or advertisements,” … However, the new version of the privacy policy for European users explicitly says that data can be shared with other Facebook companies to show personalised advertising and offers, make suggestions for content, and “help” to complete purchases, among other reasons.
Yep.
Words that say they won’t and others that say they might…kkk
We’re better off not trusting them anyway.
I, myself, am removing WA from my main phone this weekend. I got another phone with /e/ and only WA installed.
I’ve already told everyone and I’ll reach them by using Element and Matrix.
This morning I was discussing with a friend on the fact that our - previously quite short - list of contacts on Signal is increasing on a hourly basis.
We were not able to discern if this is an effect of willing to leave WA or to follow the Amazon boss.
Ah, but Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla (and others), but not of Amazon.
We were not able to discern if this is an effect of willing to leave WA or to follow the Amazon Tesla boss.
It’s hard to say, people have been happily surrendering their data for years despite public knowledge of how it was being misused by companies. Note that it’s about leaving WhatsApp but not other Facebook companies or social media.
With so many things going down at the same time, I just think people are more willing to make a change. A public figure like Elon Musk proposing this change probably has a lot to do with it, but had he recommended something like Threema or whatever other messenger then my money is that’s where most people would be turning to. Likewise, had he recommended to move away from Instagram it probably wouldn’t have worked since there’s nobody talking about it even though is also a Facebook company.
Either way I’m happy he did this and we should take advantage and convince more people to switch. It’ll be a domino effect: the more people, the easier to convince others!
I just can say that I was astonished to see how many of my contacts use signal. I guess most of them use signal along with WhatsApp but never mentioned it.
As side note to this topic, may I propose you to watch this video?
The awakening of the masses about privacy matters is just the top of the iceberg.
It is also important to know ”where" our data goes and where it is stored.
This is particularly important for Europeans as we feed massively both US and China with our data. https://youtu.be/cxFQ24IlXcU
I am slowing moving out of Whatsapp, and I would like to save some conversations.
I have tried the following method from Whatsapp: Export chat > then I have chosen the mail app > I have saved the mail Whatsapp created as a draft. The conversation is TXT file attached to the mail, and it can be saved and read locally.
Do you know if there is app capable of displaying the conversations like the messaging apps?
The TXT file can be opened and read from the internal /e/OS file manager, but is not as neat as the messanging apps… Perhaps somebody has some good advice. Thank you in advance.
If this is not the right thread for this question, please let me know where I should move it.
There are some discussions about it over at the Signal forums but for now it seems there’s no easy way to do it. It may be worth holding on to the backup however in case this features is added in the future, but for now I’ll leave the links that I found relevant here for you to research a bit more on your own.
