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WhatsApp Pledges to Sue Users Over Missuse

posted by martyb on Friday June 14 2019, @08:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-do-that! dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

RT:

WhatsApp is threatening users who violate its rules with lawsuits, even if the only evidence of “rule-breaking” exists outside of the Facebook-owned messaging app and the only judge is an AI.

“WhatsApp will take legal action against those we determine are engaged in or assisting others in abuse… even if that determination is based on information solely available to us off our platform,” the company warned in an ominous FAQ entry posted on Monday.

The source is RT, but the FAQ linked in the excerpt does say that. Would we want Kellogg's surveilling us to make sure we're using their corn flakes properly?

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Saturday June 15 2019, @01:02AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Saturday June 15 2019, @01:02AM (#855835) Homepage Journal

    In addition to misspelling "Misuse," TFS somehow did not include the link to the WhatsApp FAQ Entry [whatsapp.com] mentioned:

    We recently detailed our on-platform capabilities to identify and ban accounts in this white paper: Stopping Abuse: How WhatsApp Fights Bulk Messaging and Automated Behavior [whatsapp.com]. We're aware that some companies attempt to evade our machine learning systems, even as we work tirelessly to improve them. Using the on-platform information available within WhatsApp we've found and stopped millions of abusive accounts from operating on our service.

    Apparently, WhatsApp *claims* (please note that this is my understanding of WhatsApp's FAQ entry. I am not making any claims on behalf of WhatsApp and not only have no idea if their claims have merit, but also I have *never* used WhatsApp, nor do I have *any* interest, financial or otherwise in the company or the service) that the issue is with "bulk messaging" (whatever that means. I could guess, but I won't) and automation of same.

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