Kudos to WhatsApp for protecting user privacy🙌
User privacy is a joke here. Why on Earth you want to trace all the personal chats of the users? It’s a violation of fundamental rights of the users. Well done by WhatsApp! Read the full article: http://toi.in/Dp70hY49
Apparently whatsapp seems to project itself such a nice guy, protector of the universe.
Meanwhile, when you try to share online links of products in chats or words around it, and start seeing ads on Meta. 🥲
The only remotely possible privacy thing they may have done is having disappearing messages.
But I am still not sure about that since I have worked with Backend enough to realise what soft deletes are when it comes to data records.
You mean soft deleted msg/content is still stored? Also what is a soft delete?
Yes, basically it's a method where the record is not deleted but just a field 'deleted_at' added to the record to denote the record is deleted as per the user but the record stays in the table.
It's a publicity stunt. If you read the news articles, they're saying it's prohibitively expensive for them to do it because it'll require a lot of storage. Nowhere do they say it's to protect users' privacy. That's only given as headlines