Elaine Burke

But for me, my analysis on that would be that when it comes to WhatsApp, there is no ad tech business that's really attached to WhatsApp.

Where it makes money as a business service is...

providing businesses with the ability to message with customers.

And I'd imagine that business communications and things like that, they would probably prefer to keep that as something that people can do privately if they're liaising with the business through WhatsApp.

So I see that as a selling point for the thing that makes the money off of WhatsApp to have it end-to-end encrypted.

So I'd see there's less danger there for them to take it away there.

But let's not say it's not possible or being considered.

It means that law enforcement could make requests to access that information and Instagram actually has it to give.

When things are end-to-end encryption, a platform can literally say to those requests, like, we can't comply with this request because we can't access that information.

That's how the protocol works.

But the thing is, the ends are always still open as well.

So if it is a case that there's investigations happening, you do hear sometimes of investigations getting access to messages and things like that, because if they access a phone that is part of this messaging circuit, they can see it on the open end.

So the receiver or the sender has the visibility on their phone.

So there's other ways that law enforcement can access messaging in these kinds of investigations.

yeah and also there is suspicion that um this will be used for ai training as well now instagram has said before that they won't use messages in their ai training but maybe they will change their minds on that now that they can access messages more easily and more openly and that enables them to build maybe better conversational chatbots based on real life conversation so people are concerned about that as well and recently as well a lot of people don't seem to be aware of this

Instagram made changes to the way it accesses your photographs.

And the way this option was presented to users, it wasn't really clear in the option that came up as a pop-up when they said, do you want us to be able to access your photos in a more seamless way that makes it easier for you when you're posting?

But what a lot of people did there was they gave access for Instagram to be able to see every photograph on your phone, whether you are deciding to post that or share that to Instagram or not, if they agreed to that.