Governments are accessing WhatsApp data despite “end-to-end encryption.”
Meta engineers warned that this could be used in the Israeli AI system, Lavender, to kill people in Gaza - The Intercept.
“WhatsApp must mitigate the ongoing exploitation of traffic analysis vulnerabilities that make it possible for nation-states to determine who is talking to whom,” the assessment urged.
“The nature of these systems is that they are going to kill innocent people and nobody will know why”
*“Network traffic inspection and analysis are completely invisible to us.
They reveal who is in a group, who is messaging whom, and (the hardest thing to hide) who is calling whom.”
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/improving-signals-sealed-sender/