Billionaire Elon Musk shared concerns on Tuesday over the user privacy practices applied by Meta Platforms' messaging service WhatsApp, saying the platform "can't be trusted."
In a brief Twitter message, Musk shared a post made by Twitter engineering lead Foad Dabiri, who claimed over the weekend that WhatsApp used his phone's microphone in the background while he was asleep. Dabiri added a screenshot picturing WhatsApp using the phone's microphone numerous times throughout the night.
WhatsApp agreed to become more transparent when it comes to its privacy rules earlier this year after pressure from the European Union, assuring it was not sharing personal data with other companies owned by Meta, such as Facebook and Instagram.
