{"id":164883,"date":"2021-01-28T08:48:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T05:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/zuckerberg-is-wrong-about-whatsapps-superiority-over-imessage\/"},"modified":"2021-01-28T08:48:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T05:48:38","slug":"zuckerberg-is-wrong-about-whatsapps-superiority-over-imessage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/zuckerberg-is-wrong-about-whatsapps-superiority-over-imessage\/","title":{"rendered":"#Zuckerberg is wrong about WhatsApp\u2019s superiority over iMessage"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Zuckerberg is wrong about WhatsApp<\/a>\u2019s superiority over iMessage<\/strong>”
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\n WhatsApp is the most popular chat app in the world, with more than 2 billion monthly active users. However, its fame has been hurt in the last couple of weeks with potential issues related to user data\u00a0privacy.<\/p>\n

First, there were WhatsApp labels in December on the App Store that suggested the vast amount of data the app collected<\/a> in comparison to other messaging apps. Then earlier this month, the app introduced its controversial privacy policy change \u2014 which is now delayed till May.<\/p>\n

Last night, on Facebook\u2019s quarterly investor call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn\u2019t directly address WhatsApp\u2019s privacy concerns. But he took a jibe at Apple and its \u2018nutrition labels,\u2019 which denotes data collected by an app.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg pointed out that Apple stores a non-encrypted backup of your iMessage chats\u00a0by default in iCloud:<\/p>\n

Apple recently released so-called nutrition labels, which focused largely on metadata that apps collect rather than the privacy and security of people\u2019s actual messages, but iMessage stores non-end-to-end encrypted backups of your messages by default unless you disable iCloud. So Apple and governments have the ability to access most people\u2019s messages. So when it comes to what matters most, protecting people\u2019s messages, I think that WhatsApp is clearly superior.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Facebook CEO\u2019s note is true, but he\u2019s also forgetting that while WhatsApp doesn\u2019t store backups by default, they are also not encrypted when uploaded to iCloud or Google Drive<\/a>. So not much for superiority, eh?<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg\u2019s feud with Apple is not new. Last year, the Facebook co-founder took a swipe at the iPhone maker for its App Store policies<\/a>. In April, the company printed full-page ads in the news<\/a>paper to call out Apple\u2019s ad-tracking practices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, the Facebook topman\u2019s latest jibe feels empty. Currently, WhatsApp has more privacy-related questions to answer than iMessage, and a snarky remark isn\u2019t a good response.<\/p>\n

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\n Published January 28, 2021 \u2014 05:48 UTC<\/p><\/div>\n