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RachelF ◴[] No.44502807[source]
WhatsApp by default backs up messages to Google Drive. It has done so for many years. Google likely already has all your chat data.
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shabazahmed ◴[] No.44502854[source]
That data is encrypted
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1. sabellito ◴[] No.44502881[source]
Now it is, but when they offered this feature initially it wasn't, and when they added the feature, you had to go in the options to turn it on. Evil.