WhatsApp is completely secure – but an explosive new investigation has confirmed that the tech giant regularly accesses and reads users' private messages.Earlier this year, tens of millions of WhatsApp users left the platform for rivals Signal and Telegram because of proposed changes to its privacy policy which would share private data with businesses on the app.
Facebook quickly backtracked, delaying the changes by several months and insisting to users that WhatsApp could not access 'personal' messages.
But according to ProPublica, the Facebook-owned messaging platform has more than 1,000 workers on contract whose job it is to review millions of user messages, photos, and videos every day.
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