{"id":3524,"date":"2023-05-10T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danillolima.com\/en\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2023-05-11T01:30:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T04:30:38","slug":"privacy-invasion-alert-who-much-is-whatsapp-overstepping-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danillolima.com\/en\/privacy\/privacy-invasion-alert-who-much-is-whatsapp-overstepping-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Invasion Alert: How Much is WhatsApp Overstepping Boundaries?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, Foad Dabiri (an engineer at Twitter) claimed that WhatsApp constantly uses your smartphone&#8217;s microphone even while he was asleep. This behavior is both peculiar and intrusive. However, upon checking the microphone usage history on my Samsung smartphone, it appears that WhatsApp is not excessively monitoring me, but this doesn&#8217;t mean so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background, while I was asleep and since I woke up at 6AM (and that&#39;s just a part of the timeline!) What&#39;s going on? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pNIfe4VlHV\">pic.twitter.com\/pNIfe4VlHV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Foad Dabiri (@foaddabiri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foaddabiri\/status\/1654856617723301888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 6, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Did you already checked your microphone\/cam\/location history today? In the future, I&#8217;m going to try using apps that prioritize privacy in communications.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Foad Dabiri (an engineer at Twitter) claimed that WhatsApp constantly uses your smartphone&#8217;s microphone even while he was asleep. This behavior is both peculiar and intrusive. However, upon checking the microphone usage history on my Samsung smartphone, it appears that WhatsApp is not excessively monitoring me, but this doesn&#8217;t mean so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danillolima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danillolima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danillolima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danillolima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danillolima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/danillolima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3537,"href":"https:\/\/danillolima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions\/3537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danillolima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danillolima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danillolima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}