CIRCLE WITH A DOT

WhatsApp in 2012: “Companies know literally everything about you, your friends, your interests, and they use it all to sell ads.”

WhatsApp now: “We’re introducing […] ads […] to help you find […] products you’re interested in.”

Online Ads and Data Privacy

Meta recently announced that WhatsApp will start to show ads to its users. We wanted to outline why online ads and data privacy are fundamentally incompatible, but as it turns out, WhatsApp beat us to it – by exactly 13 years.

Threema (threema.com)

Take note

Privacy isn’t a feature, it’s a right.

We’re joining forces with IBM Research to implement post-quantum cryptography in Threema. https://threema.com/bp/quantum-secure-future