Metaplatforms Inc. META chairman Mark Zuckerberg has criticized apple inc‘s AAPL iMessage because it is less “private and secure” than Whatsapp.
What happened: On his official Instagram Page has attacked Zuckerberg’s iMessage for being less “private and secure” than WhatsApp.
His post consisted of an image comparing iMessage’s blue and green bubble approach to WhatsApp’s “private” bubble.
In the caption, Zuckerberg spoke of WhatsApp’s “end-to-end encryption.”
In particular, the blue text bubbles are always encrypted, while the SMS/MMS messages are not encrypted and appear in green text bubbles.
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Why it matters: Meta and Apple have constantly stayed in the news for privacy-related issues and changes.
Founder of Telegram earlier this month Pavel Durov said WhatsApp “is now a monitoring tool for 13 years”.
Last year, the head of the data protection authority of Hamburg (Germany) issued a three-month emergency ban on WhatsApp, prohibiting it Collecting Users’ Data.
Likewise in August last year data protection whistleblower Edward Snowden criticized Apple for its plan to scan users’ iPhones for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), saying that the The company has “declared war” on user privacy..
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