Whatsapp sending telemetry data

[tech.monk]

Checking the logs of the DNS/Router and found that one of the domain hit made consistently.

Its dit.whatsapp.net, its an telemetry endpoint by Whatsapp/FB to collect the data. If I see the data for today, it hit 200+ calls since midnight - seems awesome on how FB/Whatsapp is collecting telemetry data.

Here is what they have mentioned in their blog. https://engineering.fb.com/2021/04/16/security/dit/.

 

[kvn95ss]

Ah yes, 'de'identified data. Surely there is no way the data can be traced back to the individual /s

 

[vyral_143]

Its dit.whatsapp.net, its an telemetry endpoint by Whatsapp/FB to collect the data.

Have you tried placing this address on pihole ?

 

[tech.monk]

Have you tried placing this address on pihole ?

I did but I'm thinking of disabling pi hole and run wireshark to trace the packets to verify if they're sending the de-identified data only.

 

[CompilingUsername]

This surprises no one