After state media claimed that Israel is using WhatsApp for snooping, US tech giant Meta expressed concern that Iran might block the company.
We worry that these false reports will serve as an excuse for the blocking of our services when users are most in need, according to Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.
End-to-end encrypted means that no one other than the sender and recipient has access to the messages you send to friends and family on WhatsApp, not even WhatsApp.
Meta continued that it does not keep logs of who is messaging whom or track users’ precise locations.
The tech company with roots in California says, “We do not give government a lot of information.”
Meta has been providing transparent reports for more than ten years that cover only the specific circumstances in which WhatsApp information has been requested.
The statement was made after the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) and urged people to delete or deactivate their WhatsApp accounts because the “Zionist regime is using citizens’ information to harm us.”
According to a clip shared by Iraqi media outlet Rudaw, “This is extremely important because they are using the information on your phone, your location, and the content you share, which is likely private but still accessible,” an IRNA host said.
Don’t forget that many of us have friends and family members who live nearby, some of whom might be nuclear scientists or beloved figures.
End-to-end encryption makes it technically impossible for third parties to read messages sent from a sender to a recipient while using it, including tech companies.
However, Meta and other tech platforms do collect ‘metadata’, such as device and contact information, that they can provide to authorities on request.
In response to protests over the death of 22-year-old Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini, who was taken into custody, Iran added WhatsApp and Instagram to its list of prohibited apps in September 2022.
Source: Aljazeera
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