Investigation website ProPublica’s latestreport has cast doubt on Whatsapp Privacy Policy. It has been stated that Whatsapphas hired 1000 content reviewers. The whole content shared by them is beingreviewed by these people.
Whatsapp claims that the data being shared bythe users is end-to-end encrypted which means that the company’s employees donot know what has been shared by its users. But, the report has stated the completeopposite of it. It shows that the content shared is being read and viewed bythe employees.
This has given rise to a whole new controversy.
Those assurances do not seem to be true.WhatsApp has more than 1,000 contract workers filling floors of officebuildings in Austin, Texas, Dublin and Singapore, where they examine millionsof pieces of users’ content.
Whatsapp users are constantly screened by artificial intelligence systems. Their placement is done through Tech CompanyAccenture. For this work, these people get about 1200 rupees for an hour.
If this practice continues in the future,Whatsapp can share the details of its users with other companies and earn moneyfrom it. You talked about going shopping with your friends. WhatsApp canshare this conversation with online shopping companies and show you shopping-related ads. In this way, they can earn a large sum of money.
About the whole matter, when it’s asked toCarl Woogh, Whatsapp Director, clarified that it is true there is a team ofcontractors in Austin and elsewhere who read the messages, but this team canonly read the content that has been reported. The job of this team is onlyto read such content which users report in any category like fraud, childpornography, hate speech, terrorist conspiracy, and any other category.