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President Maduro of Venezuela denounces

WhatsApp as a spying system

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has accused

WhatsApp of operating as a spying tool and urged citizens to switch to alternative messaging apps such as Telegram and WeChat.

Speaking at a meeting in Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, the president asserted, "WhatsApp provided its list of Venezuelan users to Colombian drug traffickers, who then conducted months of espionage."

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[–] Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (9 children)

imma guess and say the devs are russian dissidents and encrypted chat is not enabled by default. wechat is good but china may b spying on you but i don't care

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago (8 children)

what if i want china to spy on me

[–] Jonathan12345@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Honestly China gains nothing from spying on randos halfway across the world, don't get why westoids are so fond of fearmongering about China spying on them with software and then ???

[–] NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've tried explaining this to other people. One guy started talking to me about the Chinese secret police stations....

[–] Jonathan12345@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

one idiot from my school I talked to said if you said something bad about China they'd arrest you the moment you went there.

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

As if China has a government agency in which the workers are just scanning billions upon billions of messages just to pick check if one of the millions of annual tourists says something bad about China

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