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Why WhatsApp Wont Let You Appear Offline

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

It’s easily one of the world’s most popular messaging apps, owned and operated by Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook empire.But more recently WhatsApp has come under some serious scrutiny for some very specific privacy concerns by experts and journalists alike. Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchieraiis on the show this week to tell us more.

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0:00.0

It's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.7

It's a unit system.

0:13.1

I know this.

0:15.1

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.3

It tells her everything.

0:19.1

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

Eagle One.

0:22.6

The package is being delivered.

0:24.4

It's easily one of the world's most popular messaging apps, owned and operated by Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook Empire.

0:30.7

Facebook has bought the mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash in stock.

0:37.3

But more recently, WhatsApp has come under some serious scrutiny for some very specific privacy

0:42.4

concerns by experts and journalists alike.

0:45.1

Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi Bikirai is on the show this week to tell us more.

0:50.4

I'm Ben Maku, and this is Cyber.

0:58.5

Lois. I'm Ben Maku and this is Cyber. Lorenzo.

1:00.2

Hello, Benjamin. How are you?

1:02.2

Pretty good.

1:02.8

You know, we're going to talk about something that I think many people use.

1:06.5

I also think this is more of an internationally used product more than anything.

1:10.0

I mean, I think globally it's one of, if not the biggest messaging app in the world. And that's WhatsApp. So you've

1:16.0

done a lot of work on WhatsApp. And recently you came up with a couple scoops and a couple

1:20.3

kind of noticeable things that we all need to remember when we're using a messaging app that

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