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Remember when WhatsApp were all "Yes, we're being bought by Facebook, but we're going to preserve your privacy"? https://blog.whatsapp.com/setting-the-record-straight

At some point, words become meaningless platitudes that are simply invalidated by the next big ToS update. Facebook have a major incentive in being able to read our messages, so I fully expect them to march in the direction of figuring out how to sell the the walkback of e2e in the future. It'll be dressed up as for our "safety" or so that their "partners" can add some sort of "value", but it will come.



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