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[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

This still baffles me. What's Facebook's end game here? They are built on data collection and spying, but they own an app that is E2EE.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

If you go only by the metadata, they know all your friends, their phone numbers, your location history, when do you chat, with whom, how often and how long. And I'm fairly sure they index conversation in some form.

Just location history can paint a decent picture of what you do, where do you go, what do you like, which friends are nearby, etc... and all of that was implemented like 15+ years ago, imagine what they can do today with AI. It's fair to say FB knows more about you then you do (FB, IG, Wapp...). And to be blunt, it could probably determine what ppls shit smells like, judging by all the pictures of a meal they post on IG.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Honestly, I think they just saw that Whatsapp was becoming the standard chat app for basically all of the world outside of the US and China, and just didn't want anybody else to have it.

Additionally, metadata is better than no data, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Meta data is prolly more valuable at scale...

Most of are really generic so any single normie data package has but so much value. Middling income with middle hobbies etc

However, having data on 330 million pedons along with each ones connections, thats power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The metadata. The message content is E2E, but the data about the content isn’t necessarily e2e.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Good point. Figuring out who is talking to who is valuable info for them too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Meta data is more valuable than whatever is being discussed most of the time