Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp?
We haven't added a backdoor to WhatsApp.  The Forbes contributor referred to a technical talk about client side AI in general to conclude that we might do client side scanning of content on WhatsApp for anti-abuse purposes.<p>To be crystal clear, we have not done this, have zero plans to do so, and if we ever did it would be quite obvious and detectable that we had done it.  We understand the serious concerns this type of approach would raise which is why we are opposed to it.