{"id":456767,"date":"2024-05-25T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/05\/25\/elon-musk-targets-whatsapp-claims-meta-app-misuses-user-data-every-night\/"},"modified":"2024-05-25T04:52:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T04:52:00","slug":"elon-musk-targets-whatsapp-claims-meta-app-misuses-user-data-every-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/05\/25\/elon-musk-targets-whatsapp-claims-meta-app-misuses-user-data-every-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Targets WhatsApp, Claims Meta App Misuses User Data Every Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Elon Musk Targets WhatsApp, Claims Meta App Misuses User Data Every Night\" alt=\"Elon Musk Targets WhatsApp, Claims Meta App Misuses User Data Every Night\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2021-01\/o99fmm5s_whatsapp-generic-afp_625x300_19_January_21.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Elon Musk replied that &#8220;WhatsApp exports your user data every night&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk today targeted Meta-owned WhatsApp for allegedly exporting users&#8217; data every night.<\/p>\n<p>An X user posted that WhatsApp exports user data every night, which is &#8220;analysed and used for targeted advertising, making users the product, not the customer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk replied that &#8220;WhatsApp exports your user data every night&#8221;. &#8220;Some people still think it is secure,&#8221; said the tech billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Meta or WhatsApp were yet to comment on Elon Musk&#8217;s allegation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WhatsApp exports your user data every night.<\/p>\n<p>Some people still think it is secure. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LxDs7t7HSv\">https:\/\/t.co\/LxDs7t7HSv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1794175493119644069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Computer programmer and video game developer, John Carmack, responded to Elon Musk, saying is there any evidence that the content of messages is ever scanned or transmitted?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I assume usage patterns and routing metadata is collected, and if you invoke a bot in a conversation you are obviously opening it up, but I am still under the impression that the message contents are secure by default,&#8221; John Carmack posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>The X owner has attacked Mark Zuckerberg-run Meta Platform in the past too.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the billionaire claimed that Meta is super greedy at taking credit for advertisers who run campaigns on its platform.<\/p>\n<p>The rivalry between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg is well known.<\/p>\n<p>They were apparently set for a &#8220;cage fight&#8217; some time back &#8211; dubbed as the fight of the century. However, the showdown between the tech leaders never happened.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/elon-musk-targets-whatsapp-claims-meta-owned-app-misuses-user-data-every-night-5740847\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Elon Musk replied that &#8220;WhatsApp exports your user data every night&#8221;. New Delhi: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk today targeted Meta-owned WhatsApp for allegedly exporting users&#8217; data every night. An X user posted that WhatsApp exports user data every night, which is &#8220;analysed and used for targeted advertising, making users the product, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":456768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5809,529754,2674,529755,529756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}