translation.en: WhatsApp, which is now owned by Facebook and used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, also has built strong encryption technology into its product, which means that people in the Global South can easily communicate without their governments, often authoritarian, wiretapping their text messages.
translation.zh: 脸书公司旗下的 网络聊天软件 现在在全球有几亿的用户， 其产品中也安装了强大的加密技术。 这意味着南半球的人民沟通时， 不会轻易地被专制的政府 监视他们的短信。