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No end-to-end encryption means they have more data though.
by arminluschin 3y ago
No end-to-end encryption means they have more data though.
- hef19898 3y agoNo, it just means whatever data they have is less secure. Encryption does nothing about data collection.
- jabradoodle 3y agoThis is a silly distinction, if they have just as much data but it's encrypted and they can't use it, most people would call that less data.
- hef19898 3y agoI am as much anti sureveillance as you get. There is abdifference so between end-to-end encryption of communications (all for it) and collecting user data (all against it). Usually I hate semantics, because most of the time people use it to nitpick on deffinitiom ignoring what people understand using a word, but here the differwnce between the two things is a) technical reality and b) relevant for topic at hand.
- clarionbell 3y agoWell encrypted data is practically useless to the collector. They could just as well be a random noise. Metadata may be worth something, but not nearly as much.
- maccard 3y agoThe solution there is political, not technical.
- throwaway60722 3y agoThe political solution is way too fragile.
- sbuk 3y agoHmmm. I wonder if the GDPR could be leveraged against the EU in this case?