Billionaire Elon Musk, owner of Twitter, founder of SpaceX and Tesla, said through his social network that WhatsApp is unreliable. Amid reports that a meta messenger was supposedly spying on its users, its rhetoric makes several impressions.
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result of their speeches, musk Recommended that users look for more alternatives security And that the aforementioned app is the least protected.
More details on Elon Musk’s criticism of WhatsApp
The answer came in a series of tweets from a user who commented that WhatsApp was tapping his cell phone’s microphone while he was sleeping. In total, he was called nine times, as shown in the screenshot, between 4:20 AM and 6:53 AM. So far, Elon’s response to the tweet has received more than 270,000 likes.
Interestingly, in the meantime, Elon Musk has talked about making voice and video calls on the platform. “So you can chat with people anywhere in the world without giving out your phone number”
He also announced that Twitter had begun encrypting direct messages on the platform to protect users’ privacy.
The WhatsApp Twitter profile gave its answer
Given the ramifications, the messaging app gave its site:
“In the last 24 hours, we have reached out to a Twitter engineer who posted an issue with his Pixel phone and WhatsApp. We believe this is a bug in Android that incorrectly sets information in its privacy dashboard and we urge Google to invest and fix it.”
It is worth noting that the Pixel smartphone is owned by Google.
The truth is, Elon Musk’s comment sparked more fires of the privacy debate on the part of Big Tech.
