in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn’t use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing “hundreds of pages of Facebook documents,” reported that Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”
Surprising? No. Appalling? Yes.
I wonder if they count Whatsapp with that
Probably
Instagram too
If you backed up your phone with Google or iCloud pre backup encryption, which is most people, then yes!
WhatsApp backup of Google drive is not encrypted?
I don’t think so
it is now iirc
it used to not be for a long time, even after they’ve introduced e2ee for messages.
No, WhatsApp backups are e2ee even on GDrive, although I disabled any cloud backups ages ago, and prefer manual database copy/paste syncing.
WhatsApp happens to be under Meta, but is highly disconnected from Instagram/Facebook/Messenger and other Meta made products, since WhatsApp was originally bought and its users are somewhat different than IG/FB users. A lot of people exist that have WhatsApp, but no “social media” presence, only because it allows to exist and function in society normally in many countries.