Here's why you should stop using the Facebook Messenger app
If you’re a Facebook Messenger user, then this shift to end-to-end encryption is critical. As I’ve said multiple times before, don’t just take my word for it—Facebook says the same, admitting, in fact, that such security stops the company itself snooping on your messages.
If MI5’s boss sounding a warning was the first piece of new news aimed at Facebook’s Menlo Park HQ, then the second was the quite extraordinary backtrack the company was forced into over WhatsApp’s controversial change of terms. “Surrendering our privacy would paralyze us,” Cathcart warns. “The power of technology is that it lets us connect at extraordinary speed and scale and democratizes information better than anything ever invented. But if we choose to erode our privacy and security, it will do the opposite. Instead of sharing our ideas, it will shut them down. Instead of bringing us closer together, it will keep us apart. Instead of giving everyone in the world a voice, it will silence us.
And so, the ultimate irony here is that WhatsApp came under so much international pressure over user privacy that it had to change its plans, even as international pressure continues to intensify on WhatsApp to compromise user privacy with backdoors to allow law enforcement a window on user content. “We cannot take end-to-end encryption for granted,” WhatsApp’s Will Cathcart has said, calling out Europe, India and Brazil. “There remains serious pressure to take it away.
Facebook doesn’t need to know much about WhatsApp users—it doesn't link to a profile. Integrating with its profile-drive social media platforms, Instagram and Facebook itself, breaks this model and invites privacy risks. Adding commercial and financial features potentially does the same.
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