Elon Musk has surpassed former US President Barack Obama as the most followed account on Twitter, six months after he bought the platform. Image from Twitter by Daily Loud
‘Whatsapp cannot be trusted’ – Elon Musk’s grim WARNING
Elon Musk was responding to a Whatsapp user who claimed the app ‘secretly’ recorded them in their sleep – and they’re not alone
Elon Musk has surpassed former US President Barack Obama as the most followed account on Twitter, six months after he bought the platform. Image from Twitter by Daily Loud
South African-born billionaire Elon Musk is definitely not a fan of fellow tech titan Mark Zuckerberg and his Whatsapp platform. It comes after a Whatsapp user claimed that the app secretly records them in their sleep.
According to a Twitter user shared a screen grab which showed that his microphone was switched on nine times between 04:20 and 06:53 – all while they were asleep.
In response to the tweet, Musk wrote: “Whatsapp cannot be trusted.”
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WHATSAPP REASSURES USERS FOLLOWING WILD SPY CLAIMS
In its response, Whatsapp attributed the incident to a bug on Android that mis-attributes information in their Privacy Dashboard. But it did not specifically reply to Elon Musk’s bold claim.
The Meta-owned app then added, in a follow-up tweet, that contrary to some people’s claims, the app can “only access the mic when a user is making a call or recording a voice note or video — and even then, these communications are protected by end-to-end encryption so WhatsApp cannot hear them.
It added that it had asked Google to look the glitch.
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