WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says

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• rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you tried been a spambot?

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  • InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …wikipedia.org/…/National_data_protection_authori…

    Tell your countries responsible authority and they will deal with it.

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• mintiefresh@piefed.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  tbh, that's probably better than Telegram. I get so many random messages on Telegram. It's so annoying.

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Telegram is the wild west. Europe tried to do something about it, but russia started threatening with more hybrid wars and revenge. At this point, we have to accept the fact that Telegram is essentially dark web that no one but kremlin has access to.

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meta says

  Same as saying “/s”

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• Glitterbomb@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do they know its a scam account if they aren’t able to read your messages?

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s what the report button is for.

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  • WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll 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?

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    • Glitterbomb@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s your best guess at how whatsapp manages to generate AI summaries of your private messages without ever reading the private messages?

      pcmag.com/…/meta-ai-summarize-your-whatsapp-chats

      Even a cursory attempt at defending these companies is a bad joke.

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• Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Keep going and now delete all the rest.

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• AceBonobo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  0.2% of all whatsapp accounts. Problem solved?

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