Whatsapp stored my wifes data

trilobite@lemmy.ml · 14 days

What a surprise when i discovered that you don’t seem to need to backup Whatsapp messages any more. They apper to be stored on Meta servers. I’m sure it was not like this in the past? My wife left her GrapheneOS phone on the roof of the car and drove off. I managed to recover it but it had been ridden over by i car. So boight another pixel and installed Whatsapp again. She can’t live without it as all her clients are on there. When i setup Whatsapp on new phone, all messages appered again, just like that. Spooky … I think in the past it wasn’t like that?

nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 days

Maybe your wife had enabled cloud backups?

dannitien@piefed.world · 12 days

Whatsapp tells me every day it’s unable to back up my data, and begs me to remedy the issue. Lol, nope!

Burray_Mookchin@lemmy.ml · 14 days

I bought a new phone a year ago and lost all my whatsapp messages. Are you sure she didn’t simply enable the cloud backups in the settings?

airikr@lemmy.ml · 13 days

I am not surprised. Meta is the company that do not follows the rules and gathers as much data about their users + others outside of their services (mainly thanks to Meta Pixel), as they possibly can. Extremely greedy!

If you want to switch to a safer place to chat on, switch to Signal.
If you want more privacy and stability, switch to XMPP and use OMEMO (Signal Protocol).
If you want maximum privacy, switch to SimpleX.

highbank@lemmy.zip · 14 days

As nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de said, maybe your wife had activated backups and you did not have any knowledge of it (and maybe she forgot about enabling it as well)?

But if what you say is true, that sounds horrifying. Meta should get in trouble for this.

printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zone · 13 days

The inappropriate jokes that filled my head as I read the title of this post are innumerable.

Also, f*ck Meta.

Edit: is setting up a separate work phone/clients only phone and a private life only phone on the table? :)

Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca · 14 days

It wasn’t like that before Meta bought WhatsApp. This is why Signal is the superior app using the protocol; Meta stores not only the conversations, but separately stores the address books and the connection meta data and communication web. The actual messages are at least encrypted, but they’re still sitting there waiting to be accessed by anyone with a key (it doesn’t have to be her key).

_deleted_@aussie.zone · 14 days

sitting there waiting to be accessed by anyone with a key (it doesn’t have to be her key)

wait, what!?

Paulemeister@feddit.org · 14 days

Tldr, closed source software can do closed source software things

Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works · 13 days

If she’s using GrapheneOS can she at least run Whatsapp in a work profile?

philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club · 9 days

How did you manage to get whatsapp working on graphene? I can’t seem to get it working

trilobite@lemmy.ml · 7 days

It just works but of course you need all the google crap loaded from the Graphene store. That is why i have it on a seperate profile and its always off

trilobite@lemmy.ml · 7 days

It just works but of course you need all the google crap loaded from the Graphene store. That is why i have it on a seperate profile and its always off

trilobite@lemmy.ml · 7 days

It just works but of course you need all the google crap loaded from the Graphene store. That is why i have it on a seperate profile and its always off

Matt@lemmy.ml · 12 days

[…] They apper to be stored on Meta servers. […]

Afaik default behaviour on Android is that it backs up to GDrive by default.

Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world · 14 days

I make sure to have less apps as possible. I was so stupid to have used Facebook.

BrilliantBadger@piefed.ca · 13 days

At the height those of us who weren’t on there got mocked by f&f lol

Now we look like Nostradamus geniuses to them. For me it was just the trait of being a more private person in all things, no genius foresight,

Fully agree on your less is more stance

Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works · 13 days

I remember, years ago, being laughed at by the audio visual crowd when I asked for recommendations for a privacy respecting TV. Now who’s laughing idiots.

NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 12 days

She uses graphene AND whatsapp? This is very confusing.

trilobite@lemmy.ml · 12 days

Well, yes. Not ideal, i understand but surely reduces her exposure surface compared to stock os install from what i’ve read here and there.