WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says
WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says
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WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says
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I wish they'd delete my WhatsApp account. I got rid of WhatsApp years ago, when I got rid of everything Facebook-related, but they still tell people that I have WhatsApp. Every so often I get an SMS from them telling me that I'm missing out, and the people who use WhatsApp to contact me are basically being told that I'm ignoring them.
And, yes, I have closed my account and even emailed them asking for this to be sorted, even emailed them demanding my data under GDPR but they didn't even answer. Why respect my autonomy as a human when they could emotionally blackmail me into compliance?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_data_protection_authority
Tell your countries responsible authority and they will deal with it.
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Have you tried been a spambot?
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tbh, that's probably better than Telegram. I get so many random messages on Telegram. It's so annoying.
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0.2% of all whatsapp accounts. Problem solved?
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Keep going and now delete all the rest.
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Meta says
Same as saying "/s"
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How do they know its a scam account if they aren't able to read your messages?
My best guess is you have numbers associated with profiles and maybe the numbers get reported as scams through various watchdog orgs or people reporting to Meta directly?
The profiles aren’t encrypted I don’t think?
What's your best guess at how whatsapp manages to generate AI summaries of your private messages without ever reading the private messages?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/meta-ai-summarize-your-whatsapp-chats
Even a cursory attempt at defending these companies is a bad joke.
That's what the report button is for.