President of Venezuela Confirms That Whatsapp Is a Spying System

from teleSUR

The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, confirmed this Wednesday that the WhatsApp messaging platform is a spying system and invited to migrate to other direct messaging platforms such as WeChat and Telegram by receiving in the Palace of Miraflores to the march of the fishing and agricultural sector.

“I have called the people, voluntarily, to leave WhatsApp and go to other networks, Telegram, WeChat,” he said, referring to “threats by WhatsApp to popular leaders in the camps, in the neighborhoods”.

The president stressed that after the Venezuelan people resisted the economic attack, the producers achieved an agricultural miracle.

“The people of blue Venezuela, we threw this country on top and said to the right: “Here no one gives up” and we went to produce and achieved the agricultural miracle that lives Venezuela today: full supply with national production,” he said.

The head of state said that this achievement occurred “in the worst circumstances, where the people said: We will resist and fight”...

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Meta's WhatsApp challenged for complicity in Israel’s Gaza genocide

(What'sApp, TOR, NordVPN, Telegram, Twitter, it doesn't matter. They all collect your data and sell you data and will hand it over to any nation, business or cause their owners deem worthy. Don't trust any of them)

from PressTV

A software engineer and blogger has challenged the Meta technology company over accusations that it is sharing users’ data in its WhatsApp messaging application with Israel to help the regime identify targets in the war on the Gaza Strip.

In an article on his blog, Paul Biggar highlighted a recent report by Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call about the use of the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered database named Lavender in the Gaza onslaught.

He said that a little-discussed detail in the article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same WhatsApp group.

“Meta has been promoting WhatsApp as a ‘private’ social network, including ‘end-to-end’ encryption of messages,” he said.

“Providing this data as input for Lavender undermines their claim that WhatsApp is a private messaging app. It is beyond obscene and makes Meta complicit in Israel's killings of … targets and their families, in violation of International Humanitarian Law and Meta's publicly stated commitment to human rights.”

Biggar also referred to the “close ties” to Israel of the three most senior Meta officials, including Chief Information Security Officer Guy Rosen, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and former Chief Operating Officer and current board member Sheryl Sandberg...

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