The article is written confusingly. It looked as if Facebook has private keys, and WhatsApp is not end to end encrypted.
But considering this:
>> Those contractors, which Facebook acknowledges, reportedly spend their days sifting through content that WhatsApp users and the service's own algorithms flag.
Does Facebook use automated tools and perform “Client-side Scanning” ?
That also defeats the purpose of end to end encryption.
Nothing stops it from sending the unencrypted version when someone reports a message they can read, it's just grabbing the plain text and sending to moderation.
Completely abusable... So E2E encryption doesn't really save us here.
The article is written confusingly. It looked as if Facebook has private keys, and WhatsApp is not end to end encrypted.
But considering this:
>> Those contractors, which Facebook acknowledges, reportedly spend their days sifting through content that WhatsApp users and the service's own algorithms flag.
Does Facebook use automated tools and perform “Client-side Scanning” ?
That also defeats the purpose of end to end encryption.