WhatsApp begins to encrypt all conversations final finish. Is Facebook really makes WhatsApp to throw the business value in an acquisition of 19 billion? Of course, it would not. This demonstrates that snoop value was in the metadata all along: knowledge of who talks to whom, when, how and how often. Not in actual words releases.
The big news in private life, this week was that WhatsApp, the telephone messaging company that was acquired by Facebook, adds encryption end to end to his conversations to prevent the ghosts of the government listening in our private conversations. This movement tells us an enormous amount of this type of privacy is neglected.
considering privacy, we tend to think in terms of what we communicate, not necessarily how we communicate. Consider the so-called data retention laws, now hit as illegal, which loaded the recording of all aspects of our communciations - except the actual content. Just the so-called metadata :. When, where, how, to whom, for how long
But as many have argued, the metadata is not exempt from privacy. Studies conducted in Germany showed that early people were already refrain from making telephone calls that might be used against them in the future, when the existence of these phonecalls were recorded :. Calls to the drug assistance, direct lines of suicide, even psychologists and marriage counseling
beyond the surface area, it is clear that this so-called "metadata" is sensitive. intelligence agencies argue that they will never know what you're talking about. And of course. You placed a phonecall from the top of the Golden Gate bridge, stopped, a suicide line. Can a spy agency needed to hear the conversation to draw conclusions about its contents? Or if you called a line of 4:05 to phone sex on a Saturday night, talking for 18 minutes - is it really an argument impermeable to water that agencies may not know anything about the contents of that conversation
This is why encryption end to end WhatsApp is so interesting. On the surface, it provides privacy against eavesdropping and wiretapping. But Facebook, one of the most environments privacy as we know it, just bought WhatsApp for a jaw-dropping $ 19 billion, with a B. Do you really believe that Facebook would WhatsApp to remove trade benefits this enormous purchase a few months after the closing of the transaction?
No. No of course not. So where is the value?
This is about who communicates with whom, how, when, where, and how often. In the metadata. Apparently, it is much more sensitive - or helpful in your point of view - that the actual content of the correspondence. This is what Facebook paid $ 19 billion for; not the actual messages (because Facebook has literally thrown).
And now we know that Facebook paid $ 19 billion just to get the metadata, we should perhaps a little more critical in government agencies both demanding to know what armed robbery and excuse like not much at once.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
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