{"id":8655,"date":"2021-09-08T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=8655"},"modified":"2021-09-08T09:58:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T07:58:33","slug":"whatsapp-moderators-can-read-your-messages-slashdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2021\/09\/08\/whatsapp-moderators-can-read-your-messages-slashdot\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages &#8211; Slashdot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Gizmodo highlights the findings of a new ProPublic report on WhatsApp&#8217;s content moderation system. What they found was that there are at least 1,000 WhatsApp content moderators employed by Facebook&#8217;s moderator contract firm Accenture to review user-reported content that&#8217;s been flagged by its machine learning system. &#8220;They monitor for, among other things, spam, disinformation, hate speech, potential terrorist threats, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), blackmail, and &#8220;sexually oriented businesses,'&#8221; reports Gizmodo. &#8220;Based on the content, moderators can ban the account, put the user &#8216;on watch,&#8217; or leave it alone.&#8221; From the report:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/21\/09\/07\/2333241\/whatsapp-moderators-can-read-your-messages\">WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages &#8211; Slashdot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a surprise, don&#8217;t you think? I already wrote about it in italian (here<a href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2021\/04\/04\/whatsapp-non-ti-legge-ma-ti-spia\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"> WhatsApp non ti legge, ma ti spia<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s why it is important to avoid it. Use <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/\">Telegram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/getsession.org\">Session<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/briarproject.org\/\">Briar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" data-attachment-id=\"8656\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2021\/09\/08\/whatsapp-moderators-can-read-your-messages-slashdot\/telegram_logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/telegram_logo.svg\" data-orig-size=\"128,128\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"telegram_logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/telegram_logo.svg\" src=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/telegram_logo.svg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8656\" class=\"wp-image-8656\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-attachment-id=\"8658\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2021\/09\/08\/whatsapp-moderators-can-read-your-messages-slashdot\/briar_logo_large\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/briar_logo_large.png?fit=236%2C310&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"236,310\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"briar_logo_large\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/briar_logo_large.png?fit=236%2C310&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/briar_logo_large.png?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8658\" class=\"wp-image-8658\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Gizmodo highlights the findings of a new ProPublic report on WhatsApp&#8217;s content moderation system. What they found was that there are at least 1,000 WhatsApp content moderators employed by Facebook&#8217;s moderator contract firm Accenture to review user-reported content that&#8217;s been flagged by its machine learning system. &#8220;They monitor for, among other things, spam, disinformation, hate&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2021\/09\/08\/whatsapp-moderators-can-read-your-messages-slashdot\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proprietary-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-2fB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10291,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2023\/03\/10\/of-course-they-dont-need-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":8655,"position":0},"title":"Of course, they don&#8217;t need it","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2023-03-10","format":false,"excerpt":"WhatsApp Would Not Remove End-To-End Encryption For UK Law, Says Chief - wrote Slashdot Of course they would not remove it, they don't need it! 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