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There is no reason a priori that companies should be looking at private data, even automated agents thereof. The fact that they do monitor that content represen
by uoaei 4y ago
There is no reason a priori that companies should be looking at private data, even automated agents thereof. The fact that they do monitor that content represents some kind of deviation from the null hypothesis that is important to identify and explicate.
- nathancahill 4y agoIn fact the opposite is true, companies care about what their servers are being used for, both to prevent abuse and legal liability. Any impression users may have to the contrary is a result of marketing and the widespread concept of "the cloud" as a nebulous entity. E2E encrypted services are the exception, not the rule. This mischaracterization extends so far that when Apple announced plans to turn on E2EE for photos (necessitating an on-device scanning tool for banned photos before upload), the uproar against it was vast and unanimous. So now we still have the same photo scanning on Apple's servers, and no E2EE.