WhatsApp, das nun zu Facebook gehört und von Millionen Menschen in aller Welt genutzt wird, hat auch starke Verschlüsselungs-Software eingebaut, was bedeutet, dass Menschen der Südhalbkugel ohne das Abhören der Regierungen, oftmals obrigkeitlich, ungehindert kommunizieren können.
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.