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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Is WhatsApp bad for privacy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by Azzu@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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And if so, why exactly? It says it's end-to-end encrypted. The metadata isn't. But what is metadata and is it bad that it's not? Are there any other problematic things?

I think I have a few answers for these questions, but I was wondering if anyone else has good answers/explanations/links to share where I can inform myself more.

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[–] squidsarefriends@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

In the iOS Appstore you can see which data they want to obtain.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Whats the deal with IP address and Whatsapp? Like use a VPN ofc but still interested in what is known/felt about this matter

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