Perusing a paper paper for once I saw this advert for WhatsApp.
No I can believe the content of your message can not be read, but by using it, your address book is theirs, your messages sent/received are logged and you will be tracked wherever you are - and whatever you are buying.
That’s what they really want.
Go #Signal - it makes sense
@Wen @helma and their AI cán actually read it. 👀
I've posted something about it for easy reference:
https://roelant.net/en/2025/meta-ai-has-access-to-your-encrypted-whatsapp-messages/
@roelant @Wen @helma Meta AI messages on WhatsApp use E2EE, but obviously the key is specifically shared with Meta, so that they can generate the response and send it back via a message.
It's clearly mentioned in the WhatsApp Help Center (https://faq.whatsapp.com/1002544104126998):
"The most important thing to know is that your personal messages with friends and family are off limits. AIs can read what is shared with them. [...] Talking to an AI provided by Meta doesn't link you personal WhatsApp account information on Facebook, Instagram, or any other apps provided by Meta." and About Meta AI (https://faq.whatsapp.com/2257017191175152):
"When you choose to use these features, Meta receives your prompts, the messages you share, and feedback to deliver relevant responses directly to you.
Only people that mention @/Meta AI, or that people choose to share with Meta AI, can be read by Meta. Meta can't read any other messages in your personal chats."
Also sourcing their white paper for more technical details: https://scontent.fclj2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.8562-6/456045578_868167208055607_7997729792527463495_n.pdf?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=b8d81d&_nc_ohc=Zw7UZPd_vngQ7kNvwE7lwYu&_nc_oc=Adlbx217y4C7z4SM9DtZBeCjNwCNO7ZqeCxWATsh0TkbCWLkQ3qJj1gBY0pitk6q9bRDHV89-1z8jlkkrUuLGR5I&_nc_zt=14&_nc_ht=scontent.fclj2-1.fna&_nc_gid=aEv7_QsE_aLJzeCbH9qJiA&oh=00_AfT3kmxw0WVkcE2CI7j5cF7Wiyvd_Rz8-dXOKFvfKhwttA&oe=68782163
@alextecplayz @roelant @helma And from the same FAQ
'What you send to Meta may be used to provide you with accurate responses, so don’t send messages to Meta with information you don’t want it to know. '
@alextecplayz The thing I'm talking about is this:
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/04/29/security/whatsapp-private-processing-ai-tools/
The link didn't came across when I translated the Dutch article, I've added it back in. You'll find that this information is newer than the whitepaper you mention (and the whitepaper has no reference to it yet).
As @Wen already pointed out, the FAQ's actually only prove that Meta can grant themselves access to encrypted messages, which was the actual point I was making.
Currently they do so at the request of a participants of a conversation only (according to those FAQ 's). But like "we'll never put ads in WhatsApp", there's nothing stopping them from changing that later.
Considering their 180 degree turn on ads, the fact that they've already controversially started using IG and FB data to train their AI without opt in, what's to stop them from WA being the next step once the infrastructure is there?
I've stopped giving them the benefit of the doubt long ago and they've done nothing to prove me wrong since.
As for the phone number incident, I've never suggested anything about it, other then that it was the thing that got the discovery going. Truth be told I think we'll never know for sure where the AI got it from.
Cc: @helma
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