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A thought I was having recently: any communication medium (Messengers, social networks, email services, contact apps, etc) that does not use end-to-end encrypti
by thinkloop 9y ago
A thought I was having recently: any communication medium (Messengers, social networks, email services, contact apps, etc) that does not use end-to-end encryption and has access to the data, may be in violation of privacy/data laws or moral obligation that will soon become law.
For example in email, people can, and do, send everything including documents with sensitive information, pii, account/payment numbers, etc. to each other - which are likely not being stored in pci compliant, and/or other responsible ways, by the providers.
Social networks run platforms that facilitate others to provide information about you when you did not agree: whether you're on Facebook or not, you're on Facebook.
Same with contact apps where you fill in all your friends' contact info then simply pass it all to a company without the consent of your contacts: mass legal doxxing.
Any communication medium where the platform has access to the contents of the communication might be susceptible to serious future legal/moral ramifications. There is a non-zero possibility that today's business models might be fully illegal at some point. Perhaps replaced by decentralization/encryption/privacy/crypto/etc.