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I don't understand why allowing businesses to use WhatsApp would require weakening its encryption. Can anyone parse the meaning of this, or speculate about why that would be necessary? It makes no sense to me.

Are they perhaps implying some kind of central analysis of sent messages for targeting purposes?

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If I were to speculate, and it would definitely be speculation, I would say it was adding some sort of key escrow for encrypted chats in the Enterprise. It's not uncommon for escrow to be a requirement in Enterprise encryption products.

This is my experience as well.

My guess is that Facebook wanted to build in some kind of MITM attack so that businesses could see a log of their employee messages.

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