WhatsApp's new feature, Private Processing, integrates AI capabilities while ensuring user privacy. Users will soon be able to utilize AI for tasks like summarizing messages in a secure environment where their data remains confidential. This technology employs several principles, including enforceable guarantees, verifiable transparency, and non-targetability, to prevent unauthorized access or manipulation of data. By establishing secure connections that obscure user identities, WhatsApp aims to enhance user experience without compromising its longstanding commitment to privacy.
With the introduction of the latest feature, the idea is to facilitate the use of AI features while still keeping users' messages private.
Private Processing will allow users to leverage powerful optional AI features - like summarizing unread messages or editing help - while preserving WhatsApp's core privacy promise.
The capability, in a nutshell, allows users to initiate a request to process messages using AI within a secure environment called the confidential virtual machine (CVM) such that no other party, including Meta and WhatsApp, can access them.
The system is designed to provide enforceable guarantees, verifiable transparency, and non-targetability, ensuring user protection and privacy throughout the AI processing.
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