by RT News Staff at RT News
Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), has again attacked WhatsApp over its handling of personal data.
On Saturday, Musk commented on a post on X, in which a user asked: “If WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted, why am I seeing ads for a bag out of the blue?”
The entrepreneur offered a short answer to the question, saying: “Because it’s spyware.”
Musk had already engaged in an online spat with WhatsApp, which is owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta conglomerate, this May. At the time, he responded to another post on X, which claimed that “WhatsApp exports user data nightly, which is analyzed and used for targeted advertising, making users the product, not the customer.”
“WhatsApp exports your user data every night. Some people still think it is secure,” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said, referring to longstanding concerns about data sharing between WhatsApp and Meta’s other platform, Facebook.
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