> But Whatsapp goes further: it also encourages Google Cloud backups. Quite many people enable it. That way, the content becomes accessible to Google.
What's the bigger danger for most people?
- You talk about pregnancy on WhatsApp, and they - illegally - extract this information so that some website can show you diaper ads? (I'm not even considering the possibility that this information would leak to an employer or heathcare - because such a leak, or anybody doing anything with that info would be considered completely outrageous here.)
- Or: your phone breaks and you loose extremely important information stored in chats - passwords, photos, and so on?
For most normal people I know, #2 is the greater hazard. So I , too, would encourage them to back up their stuff in the cloud.
What's the bigger danger for most people? - You talk about pregnancy on WhatsApp, and they - illegally - extract this information so that some website can show you diaper ads? (I'm not even considering the possibility that this information would leak to an employer or heathcare - because such a leak, or anybody doing anything with that info would be considered completely outrageous here.) - Or: your phone breaks and you loose extremely important information stored in chats - passwords, photos, and so on?
For most normal people I know, #2 is the greater hazard. So I , too, would encourage them to back up their stuff in the cloud.