facebook owns whatsapp and is going to use your entire chat history to train a large language model chatbot, if they haven't already.
you have no legal recourse, having accepted the whatsapp terms and conditions.
the chatbot, once trained, will not be able to be untrained.
@falcennial I'm no WhatsApp fan but aren't those messages encrypted at rest?
@annika yes so they claim, but if folks are leaking ministers' whatsapp chat histories as they did for Dominic Cummings for example, then it seems to me that material is probably even more accessible to the company that owns and hosts that content.
@falcennial @annika
These don't necessarily have to be extracted from the server, they can be taken from the device itself, where they are stored in the unencrypted form.
I haven't used WhatsApp in ages — since the stopped supporting Windows Phone, which was long ago, but I think there even was an option to back messages up to the likes of Google Drive, where they can later be stolen.
