‘Whatsapp cannot be trusted’ – Elon Musk’s grim WARNING
South African-born billionaire Elon Musk is definitely not a fan of fellow tech titan Mark Zuckerberg and his Whatsapp platform. It comes after a Whatsapp user claimed that the app secretly records them in their sleep.
According to a Twitter user shared a screen grab which showed that his microphone was switched on nine times between 04:20 and 06:53 – all while they were asleep.
In response to the tweet, Musk wrote: “Whatsapp cannot be trusted.”
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WHATSAPP REASSURES USERS FOLLOWING WILD SPY CLAIMS
In its response, Whatsapp attributed the incident to a bug on Android that mis-attributes information in their Privacy Dashboard. But it did not specifically reply to Elon Musk’s bold claim.
The Meta-owned app then added, in a follow-up tweet, that contrary to some people’s claims, the app can “only access the mic when a user is making a call or recording a voice note or video — and even then, these communications are protected by end-to-end encryption so WhatsApp cannot hear them.
It added that it had asked Google to look the glitch.
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