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For open source messengers, you can check whether they actually encrypt your messages and whether the server has access to your encryption keys but what about WhatsApp? Since it's not open source, you can't be sure that the encryption keys aren't sent to the server, right? Has there been a case where a government was able to access WhatsApp chats without reading them from the phone itself?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's very obvious to me that GBoard sends data directly to Google circumventing all encryption.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿ‘†๐Ÿ‘† Came looking for this one. Because somehow Joe Average ends up with keyboards having "added value" like Giphy (from Meta) integration and online spell checkers because local dictionaries are to oldskool.