{"id":129734,"date":"2015-06-19T11:28:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T09:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=129734"},"modified":"2015-06-19T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T09:30:04","slug":"whatsapp-not-that-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/129734-whatsapp-not-that-private.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp not that private"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation&#8217;s (EFF) latest\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015\" target=\"_blank\">report on data collection<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0shows that WhatsApp does not &#8220;have your back&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp\u00a0failed to score in the &#8220;Follows industry-accepted\u00a0best practices&#8221;, &#8220;Tells users about government\u00a0data demands&#8221;, and &#8220;Discloses policies on\u00a0data retention&#8221; sections of the report.<\/p>\n<p>Information on &#8220;Discloses government content removal requests&#8221; was not available, while the messaging app did receive a gold star for &#8220;Pro-user public policy:\u00a0opposes backdoors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Companies which scored top marks in the report included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adobe<\/li>\n<li>Apple<\/li>\n<li>Dropbox<\/li>\n<li>Wikimedia<\/li>\n<li>WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Yahoo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The EFF&#8217;s &#8220;Who Has Your Back&#8221; report is detailed in the infographic below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_129736\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/EFF-report.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129736\" class=\"size-full wp-image-129736\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/EFF-report.jpg\" alt=\"EFF report\" width=\"606\" height=\"1185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/EFF-report.jpg 606w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/EFF-report-205x400.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-129736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EFF report<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on WhatsApp<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/124966-whatsapp-calling-for-iphone-tested.html\">WhatsApp Calling for iPhone tested<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/124726-whatsapp-voice-calling-rolling-out-to-iphones.html\">WhatsApp voice calling rolling out to iPhones<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/123620-whatsapp-free-data-sim-tested.html\">WhatsApp free data SIM tested<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation&#8217;s latest report on data collection shows that WhatsApp might not have its users&#8217; privacy interests at heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":75147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,21797,2594],"class_list":["post-129734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-eff","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129742,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129734\/revisions\/129742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}