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New scandal around WhatsApp: messenger decrypts and reads private messages of users

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  The scandals surrounding WhatsApp are not going to end - the journalists of ProPublica have obtained internal documents that confirm that WhatsApp reads the correspondence of its users. Despite Zuckerberg's claims about the complete privacy of chats, there is a way to quickly decrypt them, which is used in case of complaints about messages. As soon as the moderator receives a complaint, he can forcibly disable end-to-end encryption of chats using special software and see what a specific user writes. The whole process takes less than a minute, and first the correspondence is analyzed by artificial intelligence and only after that real people get down to business. The corporation carefully conceals the fact of viewing chats. To do this, Facebook created a subsidiary company Accenture, which has offices in Ireland, Singapore and the United States. The check is carried out by the so-called "content browsers", there are more than a thousand of them. These are people between