“Zuckerberg paid $20B for WhatsApp. Why? Because every message, call, video, picture, voice note, everything that goes through there, they say, well, it's end-to-end encrypted. Yeah, it's end-to-end until it passes through their server where it's sliced and diced and analyzed and used to sell advertising.”
“I think people right now are used to Mark Zuckerberg listening from their nightstand every night because that's effectively what your phone does.”
“So why isn't he like the creepiest person in world history if he's listening to what's going on in your bedroom?”
In 2019 Edward Snowden said this about WhatsApp:
“The problem with applications like WhatsApp is, it was actually designed to have very strong encryption, just the same as the gold standard today which would be the signal messenger or the wire messenger, but then it was bought by Facebook because it was so good, and now Facebook is quite aggressively reducing the security of WhatsApp about once a quarter, and they’re trying to do it as quietly as possible, so a messenger that the people are comfortable using now is actually a danger to you.”
When Snowden speaks, you listen!