Posts by J. Rollans

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Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸 » 🌐 2026-01-28
@dennyhenke@social.coop

RE: https://indieweb.social/@alwirtes/115974130242828891

YEP. It's time for an #Apple #Boycott. Yes, Tim Cook is bootlicking, but Apple as a company has been engaged in its own support of Trump's fascism, for example the removal of the #Ice Block app.

Oh, of course, continued approval of the CSAM X/Grok app, continued advertising on X.

Then there's the user/developer hostile policies, malicious compliance in response to the EU DMA, and general enshitification.

Of course, we should also boycott: #Google, #Microsoft, #Amazon, #Meta

Proletarian Rage » 🌐 2024-11-06
@prolrage@todon.nl

To ensure that the world can trust WhatsApps claims of privacy and safety, Meta must answer the following questions:

Did Meta provide information (including inputs or training data) used by Lavender, Gospel, or Where's Daddy to the Israeli government?
How will Meta prevent private information being used by governments to kill WhatsApp users and their families?
Does Meta believe that Israel's actions towards civilians in #Gaza and with #Lavender comply Meta's Human Rights Policy?
If not, why has Meta not revoked all access to the Israeli government that may put civilians at risk?
Why has #Meta not released their transparency report for the 2nd half of 2023?
What was the level of knowledge of WhatsApp metadata sharing with the Israeli government, including whether it was to be used for military purposes, among Meta leadership, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CISO Guy Rosen?
Will Meta immediately rescind access to any #WhatsApp information from the #Israeli government, army, and law enforcement?
#Surveillance #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #westcomplicity #Tech #TechWontSaveUs #warcrimes #genocide
via @jackaponte https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/

Proletarian Rage » 🌐 2025-03-26
@prolrage@todon.nl

#Meta is testing #AI voice control in #WhatsApp – with implications for our #privacy
"The idea sounds slick: you open a chat, start speaking, and the AI replies. No buttons, no clicks – everything feels intuitive. But here’s the catch: if a system is always ready to listen, then the real question becomes unavoidable – when is it actually listening, and what happens to what it hears?

Meta knowingly trained its AI on pirated content. And now this very system is supposed to be deeply embedded in our private conversations?

This goes far beyond smart tech that “understands” our voice. We’re looking at a company that has consciously disregarded legal boundaries to rush its AI to market. The trust such deeply integrated features would require? Meta has already thrown that out the window.

The real danger? Everything feels “smart” and “convenient.” But that very sense of effortlessness is part of the strategy. The more invisible the intrusion, the lower the resistance. And in the meantime, habits are being formed – ones that are hard to undo."
via @lazou
#spyware #Encryption #surveillance
https://onecloud.srvdns.de/s/cxkRiqL8RL4qArt

Proletarian Rage » 🌐 2026-01-29
@prolrage@todon.nl

#WhatsApp can access virtually all of it 3 billion users’ purportedly ‘private’ #communications,” according to a lawsuit filed against #Meta. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72183413/1/dawson-v-meta-platforms-inc/

via @newsguyusa
#surveillance #connections #WhatsAppSpywareRow #spyware #encryption #tech #technews

AA » 🌐 2026-01-29
@AAKL@infosec.exchange

Microsoft "struggled to justify recent spending plans to investors," while Meta "appeared to gain approval from investors to keep putting money into AI."

Meta plans "to funnel between $115 billion and $135 billion AI spending this year."

"That’s nearly double what it spent in 2025."

CNBC: Meta and Microsoft are making big moves in opposite directions after earnings https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/meta-microsoft-stock-earnings-moves-tech.html @cnbc #Microsoft #Meta

Taran Rampersad » 🌐 2026-01-29
@knowprose@mastodon.social

@serigala_tropis 1/ the more damping thing is what is not written. The whole article talks about defending the rights of #ice agents, which could be considered a strong narrative by some.

In the context of #Minneapolis, it's weak. How many ice agents have been hurt or killed?

Now how many protesters?

It falls apart when you realize that #meta is likely handing over data under the #nationalsecurity guise. Unproven. Unprovable.

ConnectionWithWonder » 🌐 2026-01-28
@londondreamtime@mastodonapp.uk

#meta “accept cookies or pay”

ConnectionWithWonder » 🌐 2026-01-28
@londondreamtime@mastodonapp.uk

I guess this is just me then? Is #meta rolling out some new concept where you have to accept cookies or pay £4 a month??

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R. Scott (i47i) » 🌐 2026-01-29
@i47i@hachyderm.io

Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

A lawsuit filed in San Francisco alleges that #WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption contains backdoors allowing #Meta employees to access user messages in real-time.

According to the complaint, internal tools allow engineers to view chats by User ID without a separate decryption step, bypassing the Signal Protocol protections the app claims to use.

The lawsuit cites £whistleblowers who claim that workers can request access to specific accounts via internal tasks, gaining unlimited temporal scope to a user's history, including deleted messages. Meta has labeled these claims false and absurd.

Technical experts note that while the Signal Protocol itself is mathematically secure, the integrity of end-to-end encryption relies entirely on the security of the endpoints. Potential vulnerabilities in WhatsApp include unencrypted cloud backups, metadata collection, and the fact that the client software is closed-source.

Without the ability to audit the code or verify public keys through an independent directory, users must trust that the application is not exfiltrating plaintext data before it is encrypted for transit.

The legal action highlights the ongoing tension between corporate privacy marketing and the technical reality of centralized messaging platforms. If the allegations of an internal "widget" for message access are proven true, it would represent a fundamental breach of the encryption standards Meta has advertised since 2016.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/01/27/0550249/lawsuit-alleges-that-whatsapp-has-no-end-to-end-encryption

#WhatsApp #Meta #Privacy #CyberSecurity #Encryption #DataPrivacy #E2EE #TechNews #Lawsuit #Whistleblower #DigitalRights #Messaging #InformationSecurity #SignalProtocol